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Title:: Local Optimal Design Method of Transmission Tower StructureBased on Ant Colony Optimization

Author(s):: ZHANG Zhuo-qun; REN Zong-dong; LI Hong-nan; LI Ning; WANG Wen; State Nuclear Electric Power Planning Design & Research Institute

Keywords:: transmission tower structure; truss structure; local optimal design; ant colony optimization; traveling salesman problem

Abstract:: A new local optimal design method of transmission tower structure, which could apply in crosssection, topology, shape and layout optimization problems, was proposed based on ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm. With unifying the multiple type variables into discrete variables, the four optimal problems with different levels were transformed into the standardization traveling salesman problem, and it also was realized in programmed control by MATLAB system platform, then an actual example was calculated to verify the local optimal design method. The results show that the proposed optimal design method has a good performance in crosssection, topology, shape and layout optimal problem with generality and programmed pattern, and it also has a good application prospect in optimal design of transmission power structure.