Solving Performances of Piecewise-Linear Particle Swarm Optimizer with Chaotic Dynamics

In this paper, we propose piecewise-linear particle swarm optimizer (PPSO). PPSO is one of the deterministic PSO. Each particle of PPSO has two dynamics which is convergence dynamics and divergence dynamics. The trajectory of each particle is switched between these two dynamics and the particle exhibits chaotic behavior. We investigate the solving performances of PPSO for these two dynamics. Furthermore, the solving performances of PPSO are compared with those of the other PSO methods in the numerical experiments.