Adaptive Aquila Optimizer Combining Niche Thought with Dispersed Chaotic Swarm

The Aquila Optimizer (AO) is a new bio-inspired meta-heuristic algorithm inspired by Aquila's hunting behavior. Adaptive Aquila Optimizer Combining Niche Thought with Dispersed Chaotic Swarm (NCAAO) is proposed to address the problem that although the Aquila Optimizer (AO) has a strong global exploration capability, it has an insufficient local exploitation capability and a slow convergence rate. First, to improve the diversity of populations in the algorithm and the uniformity of distribution in the search space, DLCS chaotic mapping is used to generate the initial populations so that the algorithm is in a better exploration state. Then, to improve the search accuracy of the algorithm, an adaptive adjustment strategy of de-searching preferences is proposed. The exploration and development phases of the NCAAO algorithm are effectively balanced by changing the search threshold and introducing the position weight parameter to adaptively adjust the search process. Finally, the idea of small habitats is effectively used to promote the exchange of information between groups and accelerate the rapid convergence of groups to the optimal solution. To verify the optimization performance of the NCAAO algorithm, the improved algorithm was tested on 15 standard benchmark functions, the Wilcoxon rank sum test, and engineering optimization problems to test the optimization-seeking ability of the improved algorithm. The experimental results show that the NCAAO algorithm has better search performance and faster convergence speed compared with other intelligent algorithms.