A Particle Swarm Optimization Method with Enhanced Global Search Ability for Design Optimizations of Electromagnetic Devices

摘要

Based on refinements successes to the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) methods, which are, namely, the introduction of an age variable, the proposal of a new selection strategy for the best solutions of the particle as well as for its neighbors, the design of a novel formulae for velocity and position updating and so on, an improved PSO method is presented. The experimental results as reported in this paper indicate that the global search ability of the proposed method is significantly enhanced.