A cooperative co-evolutionary multi-agent system for multi-objective layout optimization of satellite module
Zihui Zhang, Xueyan Sun, Luyang Hou, Chen Wang, Yanjun Shi, Xuyang Cao · 2017
We herein propose a new collaborative framework, called cooperative co-evolutionary multi-agent system(CCEMAS), for solving multi-objective layout optimization problems. Every agent in CCEMAS is encoded as a multi-objective cooperative co-evolutionary strategy, including an algorithm and its setting. In the iterative procedure, the strategies will evolve along with the evolution of the agent team, and use different algorithms and settings during different stages of problem solving. A multi-objective optimization of satellite module is solved to validate the method and obtain the Pareto optimal solutions. Finally, the evolution process of multi-objective cooperative co-evolutionary strategies in agents is analyzed for constructing new multi-objective cooperative co-evolutionary algorithms for this problem in the future.