Table 9.

No. of iterations required for convergence by different optimization algorithms

Algorithm	No. of iterations required for convergence
	Design example A	Design example B	Design example C
PSO (Khodier and Christodoulou 2005)	400	–	200
ACO (Rajo-Iglesias and Quevedo-Teruel 2007)	800	100	260
Proposed (FPA)	482	173	204