ALE-PSO: An Adaptive Swarm Algorithm to Solve Design Problems of Laminates

Abstract

This paper presents an adaptive PSO algorithm whose numerical parameters can be updated following a scheduled protocol respecting some known criteria of convergence in order to enhance the chances to reach the global optimum of a hard combinatorial optimization problem, such those encountered in global optimization problems of composite laminates. Some examples concerning hard design problems are provided, showing the effectiveness of the approach.

Keywords

• Laminates
• polar method
• global optimization
• swarm intelligence
• parameters tuning