Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2019, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (6): 1144-1159.doi: 10.21629/JSEE.2019.06.10

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Chaos-enhanced moth-flame optimization algorithm for global optimization

Hongwei LI1(), Jianyong LIU1(), Liang CHEN1,2,*(), Jingbo BAI1(), Yangyang SUN3(), Kai LU1()   

  1. 1 College of Field Engineering, Army Engineering University of the PLA, Nanjing 210001, China
    2 Automobile Non-Commissioned Officer Academy, Army Military Transportation University, Bengbu 233011, China
    3 College of National Defense Engineering, Army Engineering University of the PLA, Bengbu 233011, China
  • Received:2018-10-09 Online:2019-12-20 Published:2019-12-25
  • Contact: Liang CHEN E-mail:727802081@qq.com;jianyong1212@126.com;chenbb0708@163.com;baijingbo1982@163.com;bryant8011@163.com;xikaikaixi@outlook.com
  • About author:LI Hongwei was born in 1978. He received his M.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of the PLA in 2002. He is an associate professor in College of Field Engineering, Army Engineering University of the PLA. His current research interests are military operations research and intelligent unmanned technology. E-mail: 727802081@qq.com|LIU Jianyong was born in 1961. He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Science and Technology of the PLA in 2004. He is a professor in College of Field Engineering, Army Engineering University of the PLA. His current research interests are military operations research and intelligent unmanned technology. E-mail: jianyong1212@126.com|CHEN Liang was born in 1981. He received his B.S. degree and M.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of the PLA in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He is a Ph.D. candidate at College of Field Engineering, Army Engineering University of the PLA. He is a lecturer in Army Military Transportation University. His main research interests include operations research, swarm intelligence, multi-objective optimization and intelligent unmanned technology. E-mail: chenbb0708@163.com|BAI Jingbo was born in 1982. He received his B.S. degree and M.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of the PLA in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He is a lecturer and a Ph.D. candidate in College of Field Engineering, Army Engineering University of the PLA. His current research interest includes mission planning of military problems. E-mail: baijingbo1982@163.com|SUN Yangyang was born in 1983. He received his M.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of the PLA in 2009. He is a lecturer and a Ph.D. candidate in College of National Defense Engineering, Army Engineering University of the PLA. His current research interests include optical fiber sensing and system integration. E-mail: bryant8011@163.com|LU Kai was born in 1991. He received his B.S. degree and M.S. degree from Ordnance Engineering College in 2014 and 2017, respectively. He is a Ph.D. candidate in College of Field Engineering, Army Engineering University of the PLA. His research interest include bridge design theory and key technologies. E-mail: xikaikaixi@outlook.com
  • Supported by:
    the Military Science Project of the National Social Science Foundation of China(15GJ003-141);This work was supported by the Military Science Project of the National Social Science Foundation of China (15GJ003-141)

Abstract:

Moth-flame optimization (MFO) is a novel metaheuristic algorithm inspired by the characteristics of a moth's navigation method in nature called transverse orientation. Like other metaheuristic algorithms, it is easy to fall into local optimum and leads to slow convergence speed. The chaotic map is one of the best methods to improve exploration and exploitation of the metaheuristic algorithms. In the present study, we propose a chaos-enhanced MFO (CMFO) by incorporating chaos maps into the MFO algorithm to enhance its performance. The chaotic map is utilized to initialize the moths' population, handle the boundary overstepping, and tune the distance parameter. The CMFO is benchmarked on three groups of benchmark functions to find out the most efficient one. The performance of the CMFO is also verified by using two real engineering problems. The statistical results clearly demonstrate that the appropriate chaotic map (singer map) embedded in the appropriate component of MFO can significantly improve the performance of MFO.

Key words: moth-flame optimization (MFO), chaotic map, metaheuristic, global optimization