Research Article
Optimization of Gain, Impedance, and Bandwidth of Yagi-Uda Array Using Particle Swarm Optimization
Table 1
Key PSO vocabulary.
| Some key terms used to describe PSO |
| Particle/agent | One
single individual in the swarm | Location/position | An
agent’s N-dimensional coordinates which represents a solution to the problem | Swarm | The
entire collection of agents | Fitness or cost | A
single number representing the goodness of a given solution | Personal best (pbest) | The
location in parameter space of the best fitness returned for a specific
agent | Global best (gbest) | The
location in parameter space of the best fitness returned for the entire swarm | | The
maximum allowed velocity in a given direction |
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