Improved Ant Colony-Genetic Algorithm for Information Transmission Path Optimization in Remanufacturing Service System

The information transmission path optimization(ITPO) can often a ect the e ciency and accuracy of remanufactur?ing service. However, there is a greater degree of uncertainty and complexity in information transmission of remanu?facturing service system, which leads to a critical need for designing planning models to deal with this added uncer?tainty and complexity. In this paper, a three?dimensional(3D) model of remanufacturing service information network for information transmission is developed, which combines the physic coordinate and the transmitted properties of all the devices in the remanufacturing service system. In order to solve the basic ITPO in the 3D model, an improved 3D ant colony algorithm(Improved AC) was put forward. Moreover, to further improve the operation e ciency of the algorithm, an improved ant colony?genetic algorithm(AC?GA) that combines the improved AC and genetic algorithm was developed. In addition, by taking the transmission of remanufacturing service demand information of certain roller as example, the e ectiveness of AC?GA algorithm was analyzed and compared with that of improved AC, and the results demonstrated that AC?GA algorithm was superior to AC algorithm in aspects of information transmission delay, information transmission cost, and rate of information loss.

Ant colony algorithm based on genetic method for continuous optimization problem

A new algorithm is presented by using the ant colony algorithm based on genetic method （ACG） to solve the continuous optimization problem. Each component has a seed set. The seed in the set has the value of component, trail information and fitness. The ant chooses a seed from the seed set with the possibility determined by trail information and fitness of the seed. The genetic method is used to form new solutions from the solutions got by the ants. Best solutions are selected to update the seeds in the sets and trail information of the seeds. In updating the trail information, a diffusion function is used to achieve the diffuseness of trail information. The new algorithm is tested with 8 different benchmark functions.

Electro-Hydraulic Servo System Identification of Continuous Rotary Motor Based on the Integration Algorithm of Genetic Algorithm and Ant Colony Optimization

In order to increase the robust performance of electro-hydraulic servo system, the system transfer function was identified by the intergration algorithm of genetic algorithm and ant colony optimization(GA-ACO), which was based on standard genetic algorithm and combined with positive feedback mechanism of ant colony algorithm. This method can obtain the precise mathematic model of continuous rotary motor which determines the order of servo system. Firstly, by constructing an appropriate fitness function, the problem of system parameters identification is converted into the problem of system parameter optimization. Secondly, in the given upper and lower bounds a set of optimal parameters are selected to meet the best approximation of the actual system. And the result shows that the identification output can trace the sampling output of actual system, and the error is very small. In addition, another set of experimental data are used to test the identification result. The result shows that the identification parameters can approach the actual system. The experimental results verify the feasibility of this method. And it is fit for the parameter identification of general complex system using the integration algorithm of GA-ACO.

Ant Colony Optimization Approach Based Genetic Algorithms for Multiobjective Optimal Power Flow Problem under Fuzziness

In this paper, a new optimization system based genetic algorithm is presented. Our approach integrates the merits of both ant colony optimization and genetic algorithm and it has two characteristic features. Firstly, since there is instabilities in the global market, implications of global financial crisis and the rapid fluctuations of prices, a fuzzy representation of the optimal power flow problem has been defined, where the input data involve many parameters whose possible values may be assigned by the expert. Secondly, by enhancing ant colony optimization through genetic algorithm, a strong robustness and more effectively algorithm was created. Also, stable Pareto set of solutions has been detected, where in a practical sense only Pareto optimal solutions that are stable are of interest since there are always uncertainties associated with efficiency data. The results on the standard IEEE systems demonstrate the capabilities of the proposed approach to generate true and well-distributed Pareto optimal nondominated solutions of the multiobjective OPF.

Optimization of Fairhurst-Cook Model for 2-D Wing Cracks Using Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Particle Swarm Intelligence (PSO), and Genetic Algorithm (GA)

The common failure mechanism for brittle rocks is known to be axial splitting which happens parallel to the direction of maximum compression. One of the mechanisms proposed for modelling of axial splitting is the sliding crack or so called, “wing crack” model. Fairhurst-Cook model explains this specific type of failure which starts by a pre-crack and finally breaks the rock by propagating 2-D cracks under uniaxial compression. In this paper, optimization of this model has been considered and the process has been done by a complete sensitivity analysis on the main parameters of the model and excluding the trends of their changes and also their limits and “peak points”. Later on this paper, three artificial intelligence algorithms including Particle Swarm Intelligence (PSO), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and genetic algorithm (GA) has been used and compared in order to achieve optimized sets of parameters resulting in near-maximum or near-minimum amounts of wedging forces creating a wing crack.

Power Line Communications Networking Method Based on Hybrid Ant Colony and Genetic Algorithm

When solving the routing problem with traditional ant colony algorithm, there is scarce in initialize pheromone and a slow convergence and stagnation for the complex network topology and the time-varying characteristics of channel in power line carrier communication of low voltage distribution grid. The algorithm is easy to fall into premature and local optimization. Proposed an automatic network algorithm based on improved transmission delay and the load factor as the evaluation factors. With the requirements of QoS, a logical topology of power line communication network is established. By the experiment of MATLAB simulation, verify that the improved Dynamic hybrid ant colony genetic algorithm (DH_ACGA) algorithm has improved the communication performance, which solved the QoS routing problems of power communication to some extent.

Ant colony optimization algorithm and its application to Neuro-Fuzzy controller design

An adaptive ant colony algorithm is proposed based on dynamically adjusting the strategy of updating trail information. The algorithm can keep good balance between accelerating convergence and averting precocity and stagnation. The results of function optimization show that the algorithm has good searching ability and high convergence speed. The algorithm is employed to design a neuro-fuzzy controller for real-time control of an inverted pendulum. In order to avoid the combinatorial explosion of fuzzy rules due tσ multivariable inputs, a state variable synthesis scheme is employed to reduce the number of fuzzy rules greatly. The simulation results show that the designed controller can control the inverted pendulum successfully.

Path Planning for Lunar Surface Robots Based on Improved Ant Colony Algorithm

In the real-world situation,the lunar missions’scale and terrain are different according to various operational regions or worksheets,which requests a more flexible and efficient algorithm to generate task paths.A multi-scale ant colony planning method for the lunar robot is designed to meet the requirements of large scale and complex terrain in lunar space.In the algorithm,the actual lunar surface image is meshed into a gird map,the path planning algorithm is modeled on it,and then the actual path is projected to the original lunar surface and mission.The classical ant colony planning algorithm is rewritten utilizing a multi-scale method to address the diverse task problem.Moreover,the path smoothness is also considered to reduce the magnitude of the steering angle.Finally,several typical conditions to verify the efficiency and feasibility of the proposed algorithm are presented.

Genetic algorithm for short-term scheduling of make-and-pack batch production process

This paper considers a scheduling problem in industrial make-and-pack batch production process. This process equips with sequence-dependent changeover time, multipurpose storage units with limited capacity, storage time, batch splitting, partial equipment connectivity and transfer time. The objective is to make a production plan to satisfy all constraints while meeting demand requirement of packed products from various product families. This problem is NP-hard and the problem size is exponentially large for a realistic-sized problem. Therefore,we propose a genetic algorithm to handle this problem. Solutions to the problems are represented by chromosomes of product family sequences. These sequences are decoded to assign the resource for producing packed products according to forward assignment strategy and resource selection rules. These techniques greatly reduce unnecessary search space and improve search speed. In addition, design of experiment is carefully utilized to determine appropriate parameter settings. Ant colony optimization and Tabu search are also implemented for comparison. At the end of each heuristics, local search is applied for the packed product sequence to improve makespan. In an experimental analysis, all heuristics show the capability to solve large instances within reasonable computational time. In all problem instances, genetic algorithm averagely outperforms ant colony optimization and Tabu search with slightly longer computational time.

Ant Colony Optimization with Potential Field Based on Grid Map for Mobile Robot Path Planning

For the mobile robot path planning under the complex environment,ant colony optimization with artificial potential field based on grid map is proposed to avoid traditional ant colony algorithm's poor convergence and local optimum.Firstly,the pheromone updating mechanism of ant colony is designed by a hybrid strategy of global map updating and local grids updating.Then,some angles between the vectors of artificial potential field and the orientations of current grid are introduced to calculate the visibility of eight-neighbor cells of cellular automata,which are adopted as ant colony's inspiring factor to calculate the transition probability based on the pseudo-random transition rule cellular automata.Finally,mobile robot dynamic path planning and the simulation experiments are completed by this algorithm,and the experimental results show that the method is feasible and effective.

Improved ant colony optimization for multi-depot heterogeneous vehicle routing problem with soft time windows

Considering that the vehicle routing problem （VRP） with many extended features is widely used in actual life, such as multi-depot, heterogeneous types of vehicles, customer service priority and time windows etc., a mathematical model for multi-depot heterogeneous vehicle routing problem with soft time windows （MDHVRPSTW） is established. An improved ant colony optimization （IACO） is proposed for solving this model. First, MDHVRPSTW is transferred into different groups according to the nearest principle, and then the initial route is constructed by the scanning algorithm （SA）. Secondly, genetic operators are introduced, and crossover probability and mutation probability are adaptively adjusted in order to improve the global search ability of the algorithm. Moreover, the smooth mechanism is used to improve the performance of the ant colony optimization （ACO）. Finally, the 3-opt strategy is used to improve the local search ability. The proposed IACO was tested on three new instances that were generated randomly. The experimental results show that IACO is superior to the other three existing algorithms in terms of convergence speed and solution quality. Thus, the proposed method is effective and feasible, and the proposed model is meaningful.

Ant colony optimization approach for test scheduling of system on chip

It is necessary to perform the test of system on chip,the test scheduling determines the test start and finishing time of every core in the system on chip such that the overall test time is minimized.A new test scheduling approach based on chaotic ant colony algorithm is presented in this paper.The optimization model of test scheduling was studied,the model uses the information such as the scale of test sets of both cores and user defined logic.An approach based on chaotic ant colony algorithm was proposed to solve the optimization model of test scheduling.The test of signal integrity faults such as crosstalk were also investigated when performing the test scheduling.Experimental results on many circuits show that the proposed approach can be used to solve test scheduling problems.

New Hybrid Algorithm Based on BicriterionAnt for Solving Multiobjective Green Vehicle Routing Problem

The main objective of this paper is to propose a new hybrid algorithm for solving the Bi objective green vehicle routing problem (BGVRP) from the BicriterionAnt metaheuristic. The methodology used is subdivided as follows: first, we introduce data from the GVRP or instances from the literature. Second, we use the first cluster route second technique using the k-means algorithm, then we apply the BicriterionAntAPE (BicriterionAnt Adjacent Pairwise Exchange) algorithm to each cluster obtained. And finally, we make a comparative analysis of the results obtained by the case study as well as instances from the literature with some existing metaheuristics NSGA, SPEA, BicriterionAnt in order to see the performance of the new hybrid algorithm. The results show that the routes which minimize the total distance traveled by the vehicles are different from those which minimize the CO2 pollution, which can be understood by the fact that the objectives are conflicting. In this study, we also find that the optimal route reduces product CO2 by almost 7.2% compared to the worst route.

Text clustering based on fusion of ant colony and genetic algorithms

Focusing on the problem that the ant colony algorithm gets into stagnation easily and cannot fully search in solution space,a text clustering approach based on the fusion of the ant colony and genetic algorithms is proposed.The four parameters that influence the performance of the ant colony algorithm are encoded as chromosomes,thereby the fitness function,selection,crossover and mutation operator are designed to find the combination of optimal parameters through a number of iteration,and then it is applied to text clustering.The simulation results show that compared with the classical k-means clustering and the basic ant colony clustering algorithm,the proposed algorithm has better performance and the value of F-Measure is enhanced by 5.69%,48.60%and 69.60%,respectively,in 3 test datasets.Therefore,it is more suitable for processing a larger dataset.

求解多维背包问题的MapReduce蚁群优化算法

应用MapReduce编程模式实现蚁群优化算法的并行化计算,提出基于MapReduce的改进背包问题蚁群算法。通过改进概率计算时机、轮盘赌、交叉、变异等技术,降低蚁群算法的计算复杂度。在云计算环境中应用该算法分布式并行地求解大规模多维背包问题,仿真实验结果表明,该算法能改善蚁群算法搜索时间长的缺陷,增强对大规模问题的处理能力。

基于MapReduce的Web日志挖掘

针对单一CPU节点的Web数据挖掘系统在挖掘Web海量数据源时存在的计算瓶颈问题,利用云计算的分布式处理和虚拟化技术优势以及蚁群算法并行性的优点,设计一种基于Map/Reduce架构的Web日志挖掘算法。为进一步验证该算法的高效性,通过搭建Hadoop平台,利用该算法挖掘Web日志中用户的偏爱访问路径。实验结果表明,充分利用了集群系统的分布式计算能力处理大量的Web日志文件,可以大大地提高Web数据挖掘的效率。

融合AntNet与遗传算法的动态网络路由算法

提出了一种新的动态分布式网络路由算法。在AntNet算法中引入了路径遗传运算(GA),提出了新的信息素更新策略。对蚂蚁发现的路径进行染色体编码,并用适应度函数对其进行适应度评价,通过路径交叉和路径变异运算以及种群的不断进化,来提高解的质量。仿真结果表明,所提出的算法能快速收敛,且有效地提高了网络吞吐量、降低了平均延时。

基于MapX的电子地图路径规划软件设计

文章设计了基于MapX的可视化电子地图路径规划软件,实现了地图操作中的放大、缩小、漫游、测距、图层控制等功能。该软件可作为交通道路电子导航使用,根据Dijkstra算法完成任意起始点和目的地之间的最短路径计算,提供求解最短路径功能,根据蚁群算法求解真实路网的路径规划问题,可以在指定的节点范围内寻找一条最优路径,实现路径规划功能。该软件操作简单方便,用户很容易就可以掌握该软件的使用,实现旅游信息的快速查询,给用户带来了方便快捷的信息服务。

Joint Resource Allocation Using Evolutionary Algorithms in Heterogeneous Mobile Cloud Computing Networks

The problem of joint radio and cloud resources allocation is studied for heterogeneous mobile cloud computing networks. The objective of the proposed joint resource allocation schemes is to maximize the total utility of users as well as satisfy the required quality of service(QoS) such as the end-to-end response latency experienced by each user. We formulate the problem of joint resource allocation as a combinatorial optimization problem. Three evolutionary approaches are considered to solve the problem: genetic algorithm(GA), ant colony optimization with genetic algorithm(ACO-GA), and quantum genetic algorithm(QGA). To decrease the time complexity, we propose a mapping process between the resource allocation matrix and the chromosome of GA, ACO-GA, and QGA, search the available radio and cloud resource pairs based on the resource availability matrixes for ACOGA, and encode the difference value between the allocated resources and the minimum resource requirement for QGA. Extensive simulation results show that our proposed methods greatly outperform the existing algorithms in terms of running time, the accuracy of final results, the total utility, resource utilization and the end-to-end response latency guaranteeing.

Application of GA, PSO, and ACO Algorithms to Path Planning of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

In this paper, an underwater vehicle was modeled with six dimensional nonlinear equations of motion, controlled by DC motors in all degrees of freedom. Near-optimal trajectories in an energetic environment for underwater vehicles were computed using a nnmerical solution of a nonlinear optimal control problem （NOCP）. An energy performance index as a cost function, which should be minimized, was defmed. The resulting problem was a two-point boundary value problem （TPBVP）. A genetic algorithm （GA）, particle swarm optimization （PSO）, and ant colony optimization （ACO） algorithms were applied to solve the resulting TPBVP. Applying an Euler-Lagrange equation to the NOCP, a conjugate gradient penalty method was also adopted to solve the TPBVP. The problem of energetic environments, involving some energy sources, was discussed. Some near-optimal paths were found using a GA, PSO, and ACO algorithms. Finally, the problem of collision avoidance in an energetic environment was also taken into account.