A hybrid evolutionary multiobjective optimization strategy for the dynamic power supply problem in magnesia grain manufacturing

  • Authors:
  • Weijian Kong;Tianyou Chai;Shengxiang Yang;Jinliang Ding

  • Affiliations:
  • State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, Northeastern University, 110004 Shenyang, China;State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, Northeastern University, 110004 Shenyang, China;Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, United Kingdom;State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, Northeastern University, 110004 Shenyang, China

  • Venue:
  • Applied Soft Computing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The supply trajectory of electric power for submerged arc magnesia furnace determines the yields and grade of magnesia grain during the manufacture process. As the two production targets (i.e., the yields and the grade of magnesia grain) are conflicting and the process is subject to changing conditions, the supply of electric power needs to be dynamically optimized to track the moving Pareto optimal set with time. A hybrid evolutionary multiobjective optimization strategy is proposed to address the dynamic multiobjective optimization problem. The hybrid strategy is based on two techniques. The first one uses case-based reasoning to immediately generate good solutions to adjust the power supply once the environment changes, and then apply a multiobjective evolutionary algorithm to accurately solve the problem. The second one is to learn the case solutions to guide and promote the search of the evolutionary algorithm, and the best solutions found by the evolutionary algorithm can be used to update the case library to improve the accuracy of case-based reasoning in the following process. Due to the effectiveness of mutual promotion, the hybrid strategy can continuously adapt and search in dynamic environments. Two prominent multiobjective evolutionary algorithms are integrated into the hybrid strategy to solve the dynamic multiobjective power supply optimization problem. The results from a series of experiments show that the proposed hybrid algorithms perform better than their component multiobjective evolutionary algorithms for the tested problems.