CICDWOA: A Collective Cognitive Sharing Whale Optimization Algorithm with Cauchy Inverse Cumulative Distribution for 2D/3D Path Planning and Engineering Design Problems

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Autores principales: Wei, Junhao, Li, Yanxiao, Mirjalili, Seyedali, Yao, Dexing, Zhao, Yifu, Li, Haochen, Ye, Xudong, Li, Zikun, Xu, Qingyang, Lu, Baili, Cheong, Ngai, Yang, Dengcheng, Im, Sio-Kei, Wang, Yapeng, Yang, Xu
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author Wei, Junhao
Li, Yanxiao
Mirjalili, Seyedali
Yao, Dexing
Zhao, Yifu
Li, Haochen
Ye, Xudong
Li, Zikun
Xu, Qingyang
Lu, Baili
Cheong, Ngai
Yang, Dengcheng
Im, Sio-Kei
Wang, Yapeng
Yang, Xu
author_facet Wei, Junhao
Li, Yanxiao
Mirjalili, Seyedali
Yao, Dexing
Zhao, Yifu
Li, Haochen
Ye, Xudong
Li, Zikun
Xu, Qingyang
Lu, Baili
Cheong, Ngai
Yang, Dengcheng
Im, Sio-Kei
Wang, Yapeng
Yang, Xu
contents The Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) has shown strong optimization ability but still suffers from premature convergence and weak search diversity. To address these issues, this paper proposes an enhanced WOA variant called CICDWOA. The proposed algorithm introduces a Good Nodes Set (GNS) method for uniform population initialization, a Collective Cognitive Sharing (CCS) mechanism to enhance group collaboration, and an Enhanced Spiral Updating strategy based on the Cauchy Inverse Cumulative Distribution (CICD) to strengthen global exploration and local exploitation balance. In addition, a nonlinear convergence factor and a Hybrid Gaussian-Cauchy mutation based on Differential Evolution (DE) further improve convergence efficiency and population diversity. CICDWOA was evaluated on 23 benchmark functions, 2D robot path planning problems, 3D UAV path planning tasks and 10 engineering design problems. Statistical experiment results show that CICDWOA achieves faster convergence, higher accuracy, and better robustness than classical WOA and other advanced metaheuristic algorithms. CICDWOA gained average Friedman value of 1.6790, ranking first among the SOTA algorithms. And the results of engineering simulations confirm that CICDWOA provides an effective and general framework for solving complex optimization and engineering problems. The code of CICDWOA are available on \href{URL}{https://github.com/JunhaoWei-mpu/ROBIS-Lab/tree/CICDWOA}.
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spellingShingle CICDWOA: A Collective Cognitive Sharing Whale Optimization Algorithm with Cauchy Inverse Cumulative Distribution for 2D/3D Path Planning and Engineering Design Problems
Wei, Junhao
Li, Yanxiao
Mirjalili, Seyedali
Yao, Dexing
Zhao, Yifu
Li, Haochen
Ye, Xudong
Li, Zikun
Xu, Qingyang
Lu, Baili
Cheong, Ngai
Yang, Dengcheng
Im, Sio-Kei
Wang, Yapeng
Yang, Xu
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
The Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) has shown strong optimization ability but still suffers from premature convergence and weak search diversity. To address these issues, this paper proposes an enhanced WOA variant called CICDWOA. The proposed algorithm introduces a Good Nodes Set (GNS) method for uniform population initialization, a Collective Cognitive Sharing (CCS) mechanism to enhance group collaboration, and an Enhanced Spiral Updating strategy based on the Cauchy Inverse Cumulative Distribution (CICD) to strengthen global exploration and local exploitation balance. In addition, a nonlinear convergence factor and a Hybrid Gaussian-Cauchy mutation based on Differential Evolution (DE) further improve convergence efficiency and population diversity. CICDWOA was evaluated on 23 benchmark functions, 2D robot path planning problems, 3D UAV path planning tasks and 10 engineering design problems. Statistical experiment results show that CICDWOA achieves faster convergence, higher accuracy, and better robustness than classical WOA and other advanced metaheuristic algorithms. CICDWOA gained average Friedman value of 1.6790, ranking first among the SOTA algorithms. And the results of engineering simulations confirm that CICDWOA provides an effective and general framework for solving complex optimization and engineering problems. The code of CICDWOA are available on \href{URL}{https://github.com/JunhaoWei-mpu/ROBIS-Lab/tree/CICDWOA}.
title CICDWOA: A Collective Cognitive Sharing Whale Optimization Algorithm with Cauchy Inverse Cumulative Distribution for 2D/3D Path Planning and Engineering Design Problems
topic Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20501