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This paper introduces a novel numerical approach to achieving smooth lane-change trajectories in autonomous driving scenarios. Our trajectory generation approach leverages particle swarm optimization (PSO) techniques, incorporating Neural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Lin Song , David Isele , Naira Hovakimyan , Sangjae Bae

In collective systems, the available agents are a limited resource that must be allocated among tasks to maximize collective performance. Computing the optimal allocation of several agents to numerous tasks through a brute-force approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Simay Atasoy Bingöl , Tobias Töpfer , Sven Kosub , Heiko Hamann , Andreagiovanni Reina

In this paper we consider a continuous description based on stochastic differential equations of the popular particle swarm optimization (PSO) process for solving global optimization problems and derive in the large particle limit the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Sara Grassi , Lorenzo Pareschi

Recently a continuous description of the particle swarm optimization (PSO) based on a system of stochastic differential equations was proposed by Grassi and Pareschi in arXiv:2012.05613 where the authors formally showed the link between PSO…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-04-07 Cristina Cipriani , Hui Huang , Jinniao Qiu

A robotic swarm that is required to operate for long periods in a potentially unknown environment can use both evolution and individual learning methods in order to adapt. However, the role played by the environment in influencing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Andreas Steyven , Emma Hart , Ben Paechter

We propose a Self-Regulated Swarm (SRS) algorithm which hybridizes the advantageous characteristics of Swarm Intelligence as the emergence of a societal environmental memory or cognitive map via collective pheromone laying in the landscape…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vitorino Ramos , Carlos Fernandes , Agostinho C. Rosa

We present a set of metrics intended to supplement designer intuitions when designing swarm-robotic systems, increase accuracy in extrapolating swarm behavior from algorithmic descriptions and small test experiments, and lead to faster and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-26 John Harwell , Maria Gini

Swarm intelligence is the collective behavior emerging in systems with locally interacting components. Because of their self-organization capabilities, swarm-based systems show essential properties for handling real-world problems such as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Marcos Oliveira , Diego Pinheiro , Mariana Macedo , Carmelo Bastos-Filho , Ronaldo Menezes

We apply two evolutionary search algorithms: Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Genetic Algorithms (GAs) to the design of Cellular Automata (CA) that can perform computational tasks requiring global coordination. In particular, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Anthony D. Rhodes

In real life, mostly problems are dynamic. Many algorithms have been proposed to handle the static problems, but these algorithms do not handle or poorly handle the dynamic environment problems. Although, many algorithms have been proposed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zahid Iqbal , Waseem Shahzad

Many real-world problems are dynamic optimization problems. In this case, the optima in the environment change dynamically. Therefore, traditional optimization algorithms disable to track and find optima. In this paper, a new multi-swarm…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-08 Somayeh Nabizadeh , Alireza Rezvanian , Mohammd Reza Meybodi

In order to overcome difficult dynamic optimization and environment extrema tracking problems, We propose a Self-Regulated Swarm (SRS) algorithm which hybridizes the advantageous characteristics of Swarm Intelligence as the emergence of a…

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The penalization method is a popular technique to provide particle swarm optimizers with the ability to handle constraints. The downside is the need of penalization coefficients whose settings are problem-specific. While adaptive…

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The optimal operation of electrical energy systems by solving a security constrained optimal power flow (SCOPF) problem is still a challenging research aspect. Especially, for conventional optimization methods like sequential quadratic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Marcel Sarstedt , Thomas Leveringhaus , Leonard Kluß , Lutz Hofmann

Chemical reaction optimisation is essential for synthetic chemistry and pharmaceutical development, demanding the extensive exploration of many reaction parameters to achieve efficient and sustainable processes. We report $\alpha$-PSO, a…

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…

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The reliability redundancy allocation problem (RRAP) is a well-known tool in system design, development, and management. The RRAP is always modeled as a nonlinear mixed-integer non-deterministic polynomial-time hardness (NP-hard) problem.…

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We propose an approach of open-ended evolution via the simulation of swarm dynamics. In nature, swarms possess remarkable properties, which allow many organisms, from swarming bacteria to ants and flocking birds, to form higher-order…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Olaf Witkowski , Takashi Ikegami

For unstructured experimental units, the minimum aberration due to Fries and Hunter (1980) is a popular criterion for choosing regular fractional factorial designs. Following which, many related studies have focused on multi-stratum…

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