RETRACTED ARTICLE: On Comparing the Performance of Swarm-Based Algorithms with Human-Based Algorithm for Nonlinear Systems

Abstract

This paper exploits various meta-heuristic optimization techniques to learn PID controller parameters for nonlinear systems. The nonlinear systems considered here are well known ball and beam, inverted pendulum, and robotic arm manipulator. The gain parameters of the controllers are optimized by using two categories of meta-heuristic optimization techniques—swarm-based grasshopper optimization algorithm and particle swarm optimization and human-based, i.e., teacher learning-based optimization. Mean square error has been used to measure the performance of various algorithms. Robustness of these algorithms is studied and compared using parameter perturbation and external disturbance. There are substantial improvements in the performance of these plants using the mentioned algorithms as shown in the simulation results. A detailed comparative analysis of these algorithms has also been done.