Integral Particle Swarm Optimization with Dispersed Accelerator Information

Integral-controlled particle swarm optimization (ICPSO) is an effective variant of particle swarm optimization (PSO) aiming to increase the population diversity. Due to the additional accelerator items, the behavior of ICPSO is more complex, and provides more chances to escaping from a local optimum than the standard version of PSO. However, many experimental results show the performance of ICPSO is not always well because of the particles’ un-controlled movements. Therefore, a new variant, integral particle swarm optimization with dispersed accelerator information (IPSO-DAI) is designed to improve the computational efficiency. In IPSO-DAI, a predefined predicted velocity index is introduced to guide the moving direction. If the average velocity of one particle is superior to the index value, it will choice a convergent manner, otherwise, a divergent manner is employed. Furthermore, the choice of convergent manner or divergent manner for each particle is associated with its performance to fit different living experiences. Simulation results show the proposed variant is more effective than other three variants of particle swarm optimization especially for multi-modal numerical problems. The IPSO-DAI algorithm is also applied to directing the orbits of discrete chaotic dynamical systems by adding small bounded perturbations, and achieves the best performance among four different variants of PSO.