Differential Particle Swarm Evolution for Robot Control Tuning

Q. Zheng, Daniel J. Simon, Hanz Richter, Zhiqiang Gao

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    Abstract

    We present a differential particle swarm evolution (DPSE) algorithm which combines the basic idea of velocity and position update rules from particle swarm optimization (PSO) and the concept of differential mutation from differential evolution (DE) in a new way. With the goal of optimizing within a limited number of function evaluations, the algorithm is tested and compared with the standard PSO and DE methods on 14 benchmark problems to illustrate that DPSE has the potential to achieve a faster convergence and a better solution. Simulation results show that, on the average, DPSE outperforms DE by 39.20% and PSO by 14.92% on the 14 benchmark problems. To show the feasibility of the proposed strategy on a real-world optimization problem, an application of DPSE to optimize the parameters of active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) in PUMA-560 robot is presented.

    Original languageAmerican English
    JournalAmerican Control Conference
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Jan 1 2014

    Keywords

    • Control applications
    • Evolutionary computing
    • Optimization

    Disciplines

    • Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Robotics

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