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Immersed tunnel is an important part of the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge (HZMB) project. In immersed tunnel floating, translation which includes straight and transverse movements is the main working mode. To decide the magnitude and direction of the towing force for each tug, a particle swarm-based translation control method is presented for non-power immersed tunnel element. A sort of linear weighted logarithmic function is exploited to avoid weak subgoals. In simulation, the particle swarm-based control method is evaluated and compared with traditional empirical method in the case of the HZMB project. Simulation results show that the presented method delivers performance improvement in terms of the enhanced surplus towing force.
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Foundation item: This work was financially supported by the Ministry of Education of Humanities and Social Science Project (Grant Nos. 15YJC630145 and 15YJC630059), and the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai Science and Technology Committee (Grant No. 15ZR1420200).
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Li, Jj., Yang, Xj., Xiao, Yj. et al. Particle Swarm-Based Translation Control for Immersed Tunnel Element in the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge Project. China Ocean Eng 32, 32–40 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13344-018-0004-2
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