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

Table 6

Statistical results obtained in 30 independent runs by MBFOA, IMBFOA, and TS-MBFOA when solving the three four-bar synthesis problems. Best results are remarked in boldface. All differences are significant based on the 95%-confidence Wilcoxon test.

Problem	Stat	MBFOA	IMBFOA	TS-MBFOA
01	Evaluations	500,000	500,000	500,000
	Best
	Average
	Std.
02	Evaluations	100,000	100,000	100,000
	Best	0.002997125	0.003726955	0.002628079
	Average
	Std.
03	Evaluations	500,000	500,000	500,000
	Best	0.5630512	3.537282325	0.2750193
	Average
	Std.