AUTHOR=Cheng Xuezhen , Li Jiming , Zheng Caiyun , Zhang Jianhui , Zhao Meng TITLE=An Improved PSO-GWO Algorithm With Chaos and Adaptive Inertial Weight for Robot Path Planning JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neurorobotics VOLUME=Volume 15 - 2021 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurorobotics/articles/10.3389/fnbot.2021.770361 DOI=10.3389/fnbot.2021.770361 ISSN=1662-5218 ABSTRACT=To enable a robot to search for the optimal path in a complex environment, an improved gray wolf optimization particle swarm optimization algorithm (IPSO-GWO) is proposed. First, gray wolf optimization is performed for the particle swarm algorithm, and then gray wolf sorting is performed for the particles with the best fitness value during each iteration of the algorithm to increase the search performance of the particles. Additionally, a chaotic sequence is used to initialize the particles. The uniformity of the distribution in the search space is improved, and the premature particles in the algorithm iteration process are processed with the chaotic sequence, which improves the optimization ability and diversity of the particles. Second, to increase the iterative speed of the particles, a combined particle adaptation is proposed. Finally, the IPSO-GWO algorithm is simulated, which the simulation results show that the IPSO-GWO algorithm can quickly avoid local optima during path planning, accelerate convergence, and provide obvious advantages in path planning.