Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm Based on Information Sharing in Industry 4.0

Intelligent manufacturing is an important part of Industry 4.0; artificial intelligence technology is a necessary means to realize intelligent manufacturing. This requires the exploration of pattern recognition, computer vision, intelligent optimization, and other related technologies. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is an optimization algorithm inspired by the foraging behavior of birds. PSO was an intelligent technology and an efficient optimization algorithm verified by a lot of research and experiments. In this paper, the traditional PSO algorithm is compared with genetic algorithms (GA) to illustrate the performance of the traditional PSO algorithm. By analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of the traditional PSO algorithm, the traditional PSO algorithm is improved through introducing into the sharing information mechanism and the competition strategy, called information sharing based PSO (IPSO). The novel algorithm IPSO was the rapid convergence speed similar to the traditional PSO and enhanced the global search capability. Our experimental results show that IPSO has better performance than the traditional PSO and the GA algorithm on benchmark functions, especially for difficult functions.