A Novel method for mechanism synthesis based on improved differential evolution algorithm
Youxin Luo · Journal of Hunan University of Arts and Science · 2009
Aiming at solving the nonlinear equations of mechanism synthesis is presented, an improved differential evolution (DE)algorithm is proposed. The equations are transformed into an optimization problem. During the evolution, according to evolution condition in the proposed algorithm the dynamic parameter adjustment mechanism is adopted to enhance its search efficiency, the population overlap is monitored in real-time mode; for overlapped individual,by use of chaotic search strategy the global optimal searching ability of the proposed algorithm is further improved. The results of mechanism synthesis show that the proposed algorithm is efficient and possesses strong global optimal searching ability.