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The purpose of this paper is to show with the help widely used analytical and application-oriented benchmark problems that a novel and relatively uncommon optimization method…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to show with the help widely used analytical and application-oriented benchmark problems that a novel and relatively uncommon optimization method, lambda optimization, can be successfully applied to the solution of optimization problems in electromagnetics. Furthermore an improvement to the method is proposed and its effectiveness is validated.
Design/methodology/approach
An adaptive probability factor is used within the framework of lambda optimization.
Findings
It is shown that in the framework of lambda optimization (LO) the use of an adaptive probability factor can provide high-quality solutions with small standard deviation on the selected benchmark problem.
Research limitations/implications
Although the chosen benchmarks are considered to be representative of typical electromagnetic problems, different test cases may give less satisfactory results.
Practical implications
The proposed approach appears to be an efficient general purpose stochastic optimizer for electromagnetic design problems.
Originality/value
This paper introduces and validates the use of adaptive probability factor in order to improve the balance between the explorative and exploitative characteristics of the LO algorithm.
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Leandro dos Santos Coelho, Viviana Cocco Mariani, Marsil de Athayde Costa e Silva, Nelson Jhoe Batistela and Jean Vianei Leite
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a chaotic harmony search (CHS) approach based on the chaotic Zaslavskii map to parameters identification of Jiles-Atherton vector…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a chaotic harmony search (CHS) approach based on the chaotic Zaslavskii map to parameters identification of Jiles-Atherton vector hysteresis model.
Design/methodology/approach
In laminated magnetic cores when the magnetic flux rotates in the lamination plane, one observes an increase in the magnetic losses. The magnetization in these regions is very complex needing a vector model to analyze and predict its behavior. The vector Jiles-Atherton hysteresis model can be employed in rotational flux modeling. The vector Jiles-Atherton model needs a set of five parameters for each space direction taken into account. In this context, a significant amount of research has already been undertaken to investigate the application of metaheuristics in solving difficult engineering optimization problems. Harmony search (HS) is a derivative-free real parameter optimization metaheuristic algorithm, and it draws inspiration from the musical improvisation process of searching for a perfect state of harmony. In this paper, a CHS approach based on the chaotic Zaslavskii map is proposed and evaluated.
Findings
The proposed CHS presents an efficient strategy to improve the search performance in preventing premature convergence to local minima when compared with the classical HS algorithm. Numerical comparisons with results using classical HS, genetic algorithms (GAs), particle swarm optimization (PSO), and evolution strategies (ES) demonstrated that the performance of the CHS is promising in parameters identification of Jiles-Atherton vector hysteresis model.
Originality/value
This paper presents an efficient CHS approach applied to parameters identification of Jiles-Atherton vector hysteresis model.
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