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A particle swarm optimization with a reduced-subspace trust-region safeguard for contact-rich controller tuning

Published: 2026/10/23

Bound-constrained Optimization, Control Applications, Optimization of Simulated Systems adaptive subspace technique, contact-rich robotic assembly, controller tuning, derivative-free optimization, derivative-free policy optimization, particle swarm optimization, trust-region methods

Contact-rich robotic insertion is challenging because uncertainty in alignment, friction, and contact conditions can lead to unsuccessful assembly, excessive contact forces, and jamming. Designing a reliable controller therefore requires balancing insertion performance, robustness, and recovery from unexpected contact. In this paper, we propose PSO+TR, a derivative-free optimization (DFO) method that combines the exploratory search of … Read more

Sequential Linear Programming and Particle Swarm Optimization for the optimization of energy districts

Published: 2016/11/14, Updated: 2017/05/15

Basic Sciences Applications, Constrained Nonlinear Optimization, Nonlinear Optimization energy districts, nonlinear optimization problems, particle swarm optimization, sequential linear programming

In this paper we deal with the optimization of energy resources management of industrial districts, with the aim of minimizing the customer energy expenses. In a district the number of possible energy system combinations is really large, and a manual design approach might lead to a suboptimal solution. For this reason we designed a software … Read more