An Improved Fuzzy Adaptive Genetic Algorithm for Function Optimization

The critical operators for genetic algorithms to avoid premature and improve globe convergence is the adaptive selection of crossover probability and mutation probability. This paper proposed an improved fuzzy adaptive genetic algorithm in which the variance of population and individual fitness value are used to measure the overall population diversity and individual difference, meanwhile, both of them are applied to design fuzzy reference system for adaptively estimation of crossover probability and mutation probability. Simulation results of function optimization show that the new algorithm can converge faster and is more effective at avoiding premature convergence in comparison with standard genetic algorithm.