The aim of this chapter is to propose improvement to the adaptation of bacterial foraging algorithm (BFA) and to hybridize it with accelerated particle swarm optimization (APSO) in order to accelerate its convergence. In the proposed algorithm, the random walk in the chemotaxis stage of the ABFA is updated through the velocity equation of the APSO. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Kishore Bingi

Department of Control and Automation

School of Electrical Engineering

Vellore Campus

S.M. Hassan

R. Ibrahim

N. Saad

V.S. Asirvadam

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Hybrid ABFA-APSO Algorithm

Studies in Systems, Decision and Control

Journal	Data powered by TypesetStudies in Systems, Decision and Control
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ISSN	21984182