Research Article

Two-Swim Operators in the Modified Bacterial Foraging Algorithm for the Optimal Synthesis of Four-Bar Mechanisms

Table 3

Main features of each four-bar synthesis problem. Max_Evals is the maximum number of evaluations allowed per each of the problems, is the number of design variables, and c is the number of constraints.

Problem Max_Evals

M01 500,000 15 5
M02 100,000 6 4
M03 500,000 19 5