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<p>The paper presents the statement of the problem of dynamical system „crane-load” optimal control. The acceleration period is under consideration and control must meet the minimum duration condition as well as load oscillations elimination. The objective function, which ensures the final condition satisfaction, is developed and analyzed in terms of its topology features. It includes three arguments and their searching is the essence of the benchmark problem. Two variants of the problem are proposed with varied objective function parameters. Twelve agent-based optimization algorithms have been applied to find solutions to a bunch of problems. A brief analysis of the performance of the algorithms reveals their weaknesses and advantages. Thus, the proposed real-world problem may be exploited to estimate the optimization algorithms’ search performance.</p>
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The paper presents the statement of the problem of dynamical system „crane-load” optimal control. The acceleration period is under consideration and control must meet the minimum duration condition as well as load oscillations elimination. The objective function, which ensures the final condition satisfaction, is developed and analyzed in terms of its topology features. It includes three arguments and their searching is the essence of the benchmark problem. Two variants of the problem are proposed with varied objective function parameters. Twelve agent-based optimization algorithms have been applied to find solutions to a bunch of problems. A brief analysis of the performance of the algorithms reveals their weaknesses and advantages. Thus, the proposed real-world problem may be exploited to estimate the optimization algorithms’ search performance.

A Real-World Benchmark Problem for Global Optimization

Department of Machines and Equipment Design

National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

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The paper presents the statement of the problem of dynamical system „crane-load” optimal control. The acceleration period is under consideration and control...

A Real-World Benchmark Problem for Global Optimization

Published Online: Sep 28, 2023

Page range: 23 - 39

Received: Jan 18, 2023

Accepted: Jun 05, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2023-0022

Keywords
Optimization, Metaheuristics methods, Benchmark, Oscillation elimination, Control

© 2023 Romasevych Yuriy et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A Real-World Benchmark Problem for Global Optimization

Published Online: Sep 28, 2023

Page range: 23 - 39

Received: Jan 18, 2023

Accepted: Jun 05, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2023-0022

KeywordsOptimization, Metaheuristics methods, Benchmark, Oscillation elimination, Control

© 2023 Romasevych Yuriy et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Optimization, Metaheuristics methods, Benchmark, Oscillation elimination, Control