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ALTCCO: an enhanced cuckoo catfish optimizer with LightTrack strategy for engineering design and UAV trajectory

Aolin Chen1, Ning Quan2, Shuo Yan2

  • 1Faculty of Mechatronic Engineering, Xuzhou College of Industrial Technology, Xuzhou, 221140, China. chenal@mail.xzcit.cn.

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A new metaheuristic algorithm, Adaptive LightTrack Top-guided Cuckoo Catfish Optimizer (ALTCCO), enhances optimization performance. ALTCCO excels in complex problems, demonstrating superior speed, accuracy, and robustness in benchmark and real-world applications.

Keywords:
ALTCCOCEC2017 benchmarkEngineering optimizationMetaheuristic optimizationUAV path planning

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Area of Science:

  • Computational Intelligence
  • Optimization Algorithms
  • Metaheuristic Computing

Background:

  • Complex numerical and real-world optimization problems present significant challenges.
  • Existing metaheuristic algorithms often struggle with population diversity, local optima, and convergence stability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce an enhanced metaheuristic optimization algorithm, Adaptive LightTrack Top-guided Cuckoo Catfish Optimizer (ALTCCO).
  • To improve upon the original Cuckoo Catfish Optimizer (CCO) for complex optimization tasks.

Main Methods:

  • ALTCCO integrates bidirectional cross-interaction, a LightTrack strategy with historical memory and repulsive jumps, and top-guided adaptive mutation.
  • The algorithm was evaluated on 29 CEC2017 benchmark functions, engineering design problems, and a 3D UAV path planning task.

Main Results:

  • ALTCCO achieved superior convergence speed, accuracy, and robustness across all test cases.
  • It secured the best results on 28 of 29 CEC2017 functions and demonstrated strong scalability in high-dimensional scenarios.
  • ALTCCO achieved the lowest mean path cost in the UAV path planning task, indicating excellent solution quality and stability.

Conclusions:

  • ALTCCO significantly outperforms existing algorithms, establishing itself as an efficient and versatile optimization framework.
  • The proposed strategies effectively enhance population diversity, adaptive search, and convergence stability for complex engineering applications.