Research Article

A Comparative Study of Genetic and Firefly Algorithms for Sensor Placement in Structural Health Monitoring

Table 3

Comparison of optimization results based on the MSE.

Sensor number20253035
MethodsSDFAGASDFAGASDFAGASDFAGA

Maximum MAC off-diagonal value
 Mean value (×1010)6.14166.13256.52716.51026.72326.70286.81956.8103
 Maximal value (×1010)6.26136.25376.56576.53256.73826.72156.83146.8217
 Standard deviation0.02910.04750.02800.46520.01650.39240.01210.2917