130 research outputs found
QUORUM SENSING BASED BACTERIAL SWARM OPTIMIZATION ON TEST BENCHMARK FUNCTIONS
The Bacterial swarm optimization is one of the latest optimization technique mainly inspired from the swarm of bacteria. This paper introduces an intelligent Quorum sensing based Bacterial Swarm Optimization (QBSO) technique for testing and validation. The quorum sensing senses the best position of the bacteria by knowing the worst place in search space. By knowing these positions, the best optimal solution is attained. Here in this proposed QBSO algorithm the exploration capability of the bacteria is well improved. The proposed technique is validated on the seven standard benchmark with unimodal and multimodal test function for its feasibility and optimality. The basic swarm based optimization algorithms such as Particle Swarm Optimization, Ant Colony Optimization, Biogeography Based Optimization, Simulated Bee Colony and conventional Bacterial Swarm Optimization with the standard parameters are simulated and associated with the proposed technique. The attained results evidently indicate that the proposed method outperforms from the considered optimization methods. Further, the proposed technique may apply to any engineering problems, especially for complex real time optimization problems
Hybrid spiral-dynamic bacteria-chemotaxis algorithm with application to control two-wheeled machines
This paper presents the implementation of the hybrid spiral-dynamic bacteria-chemotaxis (HSDBC) approach to control two different configurations of a two-wheeled vehicle. The HSDBC is a combination of bacterial chemotaxis used in bacterial forging algorithm (BFA) and the spiral-dynamic algorithm (SDA). BFA provides a good exploration strategy due to the chemotaxis approach. However, it endures an oscillation problem near the end of the search process when using a large step size. Conversely; for a small step size, it affords better exploitation and accuracy with slower convergence. SDA provides better stability when approaching an optimum point and has faster convergence speed. This may cause the search agents to get trapped into local optima which results in low accurate solution. HSDBC exploits the chemotactic strategy of BFA and fitness accuracy and convergence speed of SDA so as to overcome the problems associated with both the SDA and BFA algorithms alone. The HSDBC thus developed is evaluated in optimizing the performance and energy consumption of two highly nonlinear platforms, namely single and double inverted pendulum-like vehicles with an extended rod. Comparative results with BFA and SDA show that the proposed algorithm is able to result in better performance of the highly nonlinear systems
A Hybrid Bacterial Swarming Methodology for Job Shop Scheduling Environment
Optimized utilization of resources is the need of the hour in any manufacturing system. A properly planned schedule is often required to facilitate optimization. This makes scheduling a significant phase in any manufacturing scenario. The Job Shop Scheduling Problem is an operation sequencing problem on multiple machines with some operation and machine precedence constraints, aimed to find the best sequence of operations on each machine in order to optimize a set of objectives. Bacterial Foraging algorithm is a relatively new biologically inspired optimization technique proposed based on the foraging behaviour of E.coli bacteria. Harmony Search is a phenomenon mimicking algorithm devised by the improvisation process of musicians. In this research paper, Harmony Search is hybridized with bacterial foraging to improve its scheduling strategies. A proposed Harmony Bacterial Swarming Algorithm is developed and tested with benchmark Job Shop instances. Computational results have clearly shown the competence of our method in obtaining the best schedule
Reactive scheduling to treat disruptive events in the MRCPSP
Esta tesis se centra en diseñar y desarrollar una metodología para abordar el MRCPSP con diversas funciones objetivo y diferentes tipos de interrupciones. En esta tesis se exploran el MRCPSP con dos funciones objetivo, a saber: (1) minimizar la duración del proyecto y (2) maximizar el valor presente neto del proyecto. Luego, se tiene en cuenta dos tipos diferentes de interrupciones, (a) interrupción de duración, e (b) interrupción de recurso renovable. Para resolver el MRCPSP, en esta tesis se proponen tres estrategias metaheurísticas: (1) algoritmo memético para minimizar la duración del proyecto, (2) algoritmo adaptativo de forrajeo bacteriano para maximizar el valor presente neto del proyecto y (3) algoritmo de optimización multiobjetivo de forrajeo bacteriano (MBFO) para resolver el MRCPSP con eventos de interrupción. Para juzgar el rendimiento del algoritmo memético y de forrajeo bacteriano propuestos, se ha llevado a cabo un extenso análisis basado en diseño factorial y diseño Taguchi para controlar y optimizar los parámetros del algoritmo. Además se han puesto a prueba resolviendo las instancias de los conjuntos más importantes en la literatura: PSPLIB (10,12,14,16,18,20 y 30 actividades) y MMLIB (50 y 100 actividades). También se ha demostrado la superioridad de los algoritmos metaheurísticos propuestos sobre otros enfoques heurísticos y metaheurísticos del estado del arte. A partir de los estudios experimentales se ha ajustado la MBFO, utilizando un caso de estudio.DoctoradoDoctor en Ingeniería Industria
Métodos discretos basados en quimiotaxis de bacterias y algoritmos genéticos para solucionar el problema de la distribución de planta en celdas de manufactura.
This paper presents the mono-objective and multi-objective solution to the cell manufacturing layout problem using two new discrete hybrid algorithms based on bacterial chemotaxis and genetic algorithms. The proposed models simultaneously solve the issues that constitute the problem of the layout of manufacturing cells: the formation of the cells and the inter- and intra-cell layout, considering the clustering of cells, and the cost of transportation and material handling. The performance of the proposals was evaluated with benchmark problems of manufacturing cells, traveling salesman problem and a multi-objective version of knapsack problem. The mono-objective results were compared with GA, BFOA and Bacterial-GA, while the multi-objective results were compared with well-known algorithms NSGA2 and SPEA2, obtaining better performances in both cases.Este trabajo presenta la solución mono-objetivo y multi-objetivo del problema de la distribución de planta en celdas de manufactura a través de dos nuevos algoritmos híbridos discretos basados en quimiotaxis de bacterias y en algoritmos genéticos. Los modelos propuestos resuelven simultáneamente los dos inconvenientes que constituyen el problema de la distribución de planta en celdas de manufactura: la formación de las celdas y la distribución de planta intra e inter celdas, considerando el agrupamiento de las celdas y el costo de transporte y manipulación de materiales. El desempeño de las propuestas se evaluó con problemas de prueba de distribución de planta de celdas de manufactura, agente viajero (TSP) y el caso multi-objetivo del problema de las mochilas. Los resultados mono-objetivo se compararon con AG, BFOA y Bacterial-GA, mientras que los resultados multi-objetivo se compararon con los reconocidos algoritmos NSGA2 y SPEA2 en los que se obtuvo un mejor desempeño en los dos casos
Designing of rule base for a TSK- fuzzy system using bacterial foraging optimization algorithm (BFOA)
AbstractManual construction of a rule base for a fuzzy system is a hard and time-consuming task that requires expert knowledge. To ameliorate that, researchers have developed some methods that are more based on training data than on expert knowledge to gradually identify the structure of rule bases. In this paper we propose a method based on bacterial foraging optimization algorithm (BFOA), which simulates the foraging behavior of “E.coli” bacterium, to tune Gaussian membership functions parameters of a TSK-fuzzy system rule base. The effectiveness of modified BFOA in such identifications is then revealed for designing a fuzzy control system, via a comparison with available methods
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