Integrating PSO with modified hybrid GA for solving nonlinear optimal control problems

  • Authors

    • Reza Ghanbari Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
    • Saeed Nezhadhosein Department of Applied Mathematics, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
    • Aghileh Heidari Department of Applied Mathematics, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
    2014-10-21
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijamr.v3i4.3538

  • Abstract

    Here, a two-phase algorithm based on integrating particle swarm optimization (PSO) with modified hybrid genetic algorithm (MHGA) is proposed for solving the associated nonlinear programming problem of a nonlinear optimal control problem. In the first phase, PSO starts with a completely random initial swarm of particles, where each of them contains two random matrices in time nodes. After phase 1, to achieve more accurate solutions, the number of time nodes is increased. The values of the associated new control inputs are estimated by linear or spline interpolations using the curves computed in the phase 1. In addition, to maintain the diversity in the population, some additional individuals are added randomly. Next, in the second phase, MHGA, starts by the new population constructed by the above procedure and tries to improve the obtained solutions at the end of phase 1. MHGA combines a GA with a successive quadratic programming, SQP, as a local search. Finally, we implement the proposed algorithm on some well-known nonlinear optimal control problems. The numerical results show that the proposed algorithm can find almost better solution than other proposed algorithms. 

    Keywords: Optimal control problem, Hybrid genetic algorithm, ?particle swarm optimization, Spline interpolation.

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    Ghanbari, R., Nezhadhosein, S., & Heidari, A. (2014). Integrating PSO with modified hybrid GA for solving nonlinear optimal control problems. International Journal of Applied Mathematical Research, 3(4), 496-507. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijamr.v3i4.3538

    Received date: 2014-09-04

    Accepted date: 2014-09-28

    Published date: 2014-10-21