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An automated algorithm to construct island divertors for stellarators is presented and is used to find divertors that meet heat flux requirements determined by engineering and material limits. The algorithm uses just two initial conditions:…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Avigdor Veksler , Aaron Bader , Heinke Frerichs , Elizabeth Paul

In this study we address existing deficiencies in the literature on applications of Particle Swarm Optimization to generate optimal designs. We present the results of a large computer study in which we bench-mark both efficiency and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Stephen J. Walsh , John J. Borkowski

The divertor in a magnetic confinement fusion reactor is an essential component for power dissipation and particle removal. The FIREFLY package for rapid evaluation of divertor designs is presented as an extension of the FLARE code for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Heinke Frerichs , Dieter Boeyaert , Yuhe Feng , Detlev Reiter

There has been a growing interest in controlled heat flux manipulation to increase the efficiency of thermal apparatus. Heat manipulators control and manipulate heat flow. A key to the effective performance of these heat manipulators is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Chintan Jansari , Stéphane P. A. Bordas , Elena Atroshchenko

Most of the research on Federated Learning (FL) has focused on analyzing global optimization, privacy, and communication, with limited attention focusing on analyzing the critical matter of performing efficient local training and inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Basheer Qolomany , Kashif Ahmad , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Junaid Qadir

The design of divertor targets and baffles for optimal heat and particle exhaust from magnetically confined fusion plasmas requires a combination of fast, low-fidelity models (such as EMC3-lite [1]) for scoping studies and high-fidelity…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 H. Frerichs , D. Boeyaert , Y. Feng , K. A. Garcia

Identifying optimal designs for generalized linear models with a binary response can be a challenging task, especially when there are both continuous and discrete independent factors in the model. Theoretical results rarely exist for such…

Applications · Statistics 2016-02-09 Joshua Lukemire , Abhyuday Mandal , Weng Kee Wong

This work contributes to efforts on autonomously detecting a vegetation-occluded target by airborne observers. It investigates and enhances previous work on a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) strategy for Airborne Optical Sectioning (AOS)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Julia Pöschl

The Particle Swarm Optimized (PSO) fuzzy controller has been proposed for indirect vector control of induction motor. In this proposed scheme a Neutral Point Clamped (NPC) multilevel inverter is used and hysteresis current control technique…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-10 Sanjaya Kumar Sahu , T. V. Dixit , D. D. Neema

The layout optimization of the heat conduction is essential during design in engineering, especially for thermal sensible products. When the optimization algorithm iteratively evaluates different loading cases, the traditional numerical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Hao Ma , Yang Sun , Mario Chiarelli

Application of metaheuristic algorithms has been of continued interest in the field of electrical engineering because of their powerful features. In this work special design is done for a tapered transmission line used for matching an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Ezgi Deniz Ulker , Sadik Ulker

In recent years, several swarm intelligence optimization algorithms have been proposed to be applied for solving a variety of optimization problems. However, the values of several hyperparameters should be determined. For instance, although…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Abel C. H. Chen

Reactive power plays an important role in supporting the real power transfer by maintaining voltage stability and system reliability. It is a critical element for a transmission operator to ensure the reliability of an electric system while…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-03-25 P. R. Sujin , T. Ruban Deva Prakash , M. Mary Linda

The paper introduces particle swarm optimization as a viable strategy to find numerical solution of Diophantine equation, for which there exists no general method of finding solutions. The proposed methodology uses a population of integer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-03-16 Siby Abraham , Sugata Sanyal , Mukund Sanglikar

This paper proposes the application of particle swarm optimization (PSO) to the problem of finite element model (FEM) selection. This problem arises when a choice of the best model for a system has to be made from set of competing models,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-10-13 Linda Mthembu , Tshilidzi Marwala , Michael I. Friswell , Sondipon Adhikari

Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) is a powerful optimisation algorithm that can be used to locate global maxima in a search space. Recent interest in swarms of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) begs the question as to whether PSO can be used as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Lauren Parker , James Butterworth , Shan Luo

The aim of paper is to apply two types of particle swarm optimization, global best andlocal best PSO to a constrained maximum likelihood estimation problem in pseudotime anal-ysis, a sub-field in bioinformatics. The results have shown that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Elvis Cui , Dongyuan Song , Weng Kee Wong

Optimizing the design of spur gears, regarding their mass or failure reduction, leads to reduced costs. The proposed work is aimed at using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to solve single and multiple-objective optimization problems…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Ricardo Fitas , Carlos Fernandes , Carlos Conceição António

Optimization is nothing but a mathematical technique which finds maxima or minima of any function of concern in some realistic region. Different optimization techniques are proposed which are competing for the best solution. Particle Swarm…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Vishakha A Metre , Mr Pramod B Deshmukh

In this article, we investigate the optimal path planning for aerial load transportation in complex, dynamic, and static environments using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). A hierarchical optimal control system is designed for a quadrotor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Ali Akbar Rezaei Lori
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