A modified imperialist competitive algorithm for digital IIR filter design

Digital infinite impulse response (IIR) filter have become the target of growing interest, because they often provide a much better performance and less computational cost than finite impulse response (FIR) filters. Since the problem of error surface of designing Digital IIR filters is generally nonlinear and multimodal, global optimization techniques are required in order to avoid local minima. In this paper, an evolutionary method based on Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) has been proposed to design Digital IIR filters. By adding a step to the standard ICA algorithm, its performance has been improved in searching solution space and convergence to the global minima. Simulation results show the efficiency of the proposed method to design Digital IIR filter.