A combined genetic algorithm-fuzzy logic controller (GA-FLC) in nonlinear programming

Abstract This paper presents a combined genetic algorithm-fuzzy logic controller (GA–FLC) technique for constrained nonlinear programming problems. In the standard Genetic algorithms, the upper and lower limits of the search regions should be given by the decision maker in advance to the optimization process. In general a needlessly large search region is used in fear of missing the global optimum outside the search region. Therefore, if the search region is able to adapt toward a promising area during the optimization process, the performance of GA will be enhanced greatly. Thus in this work we tried to investigate the influence of the bounding intervals on the final result. The proposed algorithm is made of classical GA coupled with FLC. This controller monitors the variation of the decision variables during process of the algorithm and modifies the boundary intervals to restart the next round of the algorithm. These characteristics make this approach well suited for finding optimal solutions to the highly NLP problems. Compared to previous works on NLP, our method proved to be more efficient in computation time and accuracy of the final solution.