Chaotic Mapping Based Advanced Aquila Optimizer With Single Stage Evolutionary Algorithm

The intelligent optimization techniques have been introduced by carefully observing the behavior of various hunters like a whale, grey wolf, Aquila, and lizards for estimating global optimum solutions in fair time by forming appropriate mathematical models. However, hunting-based algorithms suffer from slow and pre-requisite convergence and get caught up in local minimum. Aquila optimizer (AO) is one of the recently developed hunting-based methods that encounter a similar type of shortcoming in a few situations. This research introduces the concept of chaotic mapping to the standard AO in order to increase the convergence speed. Also to maintain the balance of exploration performed by AO with its exploitation capability, a single stage evolutionary algorithm is also integrated with it. The performance of standard AO and modified AO are tested for well-defined unimodal and multimodal Benchmark functions. The proposed framework produces one population by standard AO and a new population by single stage genetic algorithm based evolutionary concept in which binary tournament selection, roulette wheel selection, shuffle crossing over and displacement mutation occur to generate a new population. The chaotic mapping criteria are then applied to obtain various variants of the standard AO technique. The general results obtained from the proposed novel chaotic mapping-based advanced AO with single stage evolutionary algorithm shows that it outperforms the standard AO. This advanced technique is thus applied to real-world design engineering problems to study its significance from an industrial point of view.

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This research introduces the concept of chaotic mapping and single stage evolutionary algorithm to enhance the performance of the standard hunting-based optimization algorithm. The modified algorithm shows faster convergence and better balance between exploration and exploitation. The proposed technique outperforms the standard method in benchmark tests and demonstrates its significance in real-world design engineering problems.