TY - JOUR
T1 - Hybrid Metaheuristic for Designing an End Effector as a Constrained Optimization Problem
AU - Vega-Alvarado, Eduardo
AU - Portilla-Flores, Edgar Alfredo
AU - Calva-Yanez, Maria Barbara
AU - Sepulveda-Cervantes, Gabriel
AU - Aponte-Rodriguez, Jorge Alexander
AU - Santiago-Valentin, Eric
AU - Rueda-Melendez, Jose Marco Antonio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Hybrid metaheuristics, explored in recent literature, are optimization methods that combine a global search metaheuristic with algorithms for refinement that in turn can be stochastic or deterministic. Although initially they were applied to combinatorial optimization, nowadays there are hybrid algorithms for a wide range of numerical problems: static or dynamic, mono or multi-objective, unconstrained or constrained, among others. In this paper a novel application of a hybrid method, MemMABC, is applied as a tool in a case study for the synthesis of an end effector presented as a constrained optimization problem, using a model for a two-finger gripper. The objective is to show the ability of hybrid metaheuristics as an alternative method for solving hard problems, specifically of numerical optimization. MemMABC is a memetic algorithm, that uses the modified artificial bee colony algorithm(MABC) for global searching and a version of random walk as local searcher, adapted to handle design constraints with an $\epsilon $ -constraint scheme. Grippers are end effectors used in a wide variety of robots, and are a good example of hard optimization problems. The simulation of results shows an accurate control of the gripping force along the opening range of the calculated mechanisms, suggesting that MemMABC can produce quality solutions for real-world engineering cases.
AB - Hybrid metaheuristics, explored in recent literature, are optimization methods that combine a global search metaheuristic with algorithms for refinement that in turn can be stochastic or deterministic. Although initially they were applied to combinatorial optimization, nowadays there are hybrid algorithms for a wide range of numerical problems: static or dynamic, mono or multi-objective, unconstrained or constrained, among others. In this paper a novel application of a hybrid method, MemMABC, is applied as a tool in a case study for the synthesis of an end effector presented as a constrained optimization problem, using a model for a two-finger gripper. The objective is to show the ability of hybrid metaheuristics as an alternative method for solving hard problems, specifically of numerical optimization. MemMABC is a memetic algorithm, that uses the modified artificial bee colony algorithm(MABC) for global searching and a version of random walk as local searcher, adapted to handle design constraints with an $\epsilon $ -constraint scheme. Grippers are end effectors used in a wide variety of robots, and are a good example of hard optimization problems. The simulation of results shows an accurate control of the gripping force along the opening range of the calculated mechanisms, suggesting that MemMABC can produce quality solutions for real-world engineering cases.
KW - Engineering design
KW - gripper
KW - hybrid metaheuristics
KW - mechanism synthesis
KW - optimization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85028091632&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2691660
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2691660
M3 - Artículo
SN - 2169-3536
VL - 5
SP - 6002
EP - 6014
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
M1 - 7893806
ER -