The influence of inertia weight on the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm

The paper presents the use of the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm to find the shortest trajectory connecting two defined points while avoiding obstacles. The influence of the inertia weight and the number of population adopted in the first iteration of the PSO algorithm was examined for the length of the sought trajectory. Simulation results showed that the proposed method achieved significant improvement compared to the linearly decreasing method technique that is widely used in literature.