Title :
A penalty approach to handle inequality constraints in particle swarm optimization
Author :
Masuda, Kazuaki ; Kurihara, Kenzo ; Aiyoshi, Eitaro
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng., Kanagawa Univ., Yokohama, Japan
Abstract :
This paper proposes a penalty method for solving nonlinear optimization problems with inequalities by the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. The proposed method is not only very simple but also useful. One should only search for the global solution of a series of unconstrained minimization problems simply by a standard PSO algorithm. It does not require to check the feasibility of search points during the search. Moreover, it is shown that the global best solution gets feasible as the penalty parameter is increased to a sufficiently but finitely large value. The proposed method is verified by numerical experiments to famous benchmark problems.
Keywords :
constraint handling; constraint theory; nonlinear programming; particle swarm optimisation; inequality constraint handling; nonlinear optimization problem; particle swarm optimization; penalty approach; problem solving; constraint handling; nonlinear programming; particle swarm optimization (PSO); penalty method;
Conference_Titel :
Systems Man and Cybernetics (SMC), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6586-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5641925