This paper demonstrates an improved version of the Salp Swarm Algorithm (SSA) to solve the problems of slow convergence and local minima of the original version. In the population initialization of this scheme, ten chaotic searches with dynamic inertia coefficients are introduced to increase the diversity so that the probability of being trapped in local minima is reduced. Genetic algorithms are then applied to improve the global search ability and convergence speed. The experiments with 12 test functions show that the improved version achieves better accuracy and convergence speed over the original SSA. In the test with robot path planning problem, the proposed algorithm shows improved performance in the average number of iterations, path length, and average number of turns by 69.2%, 19.1%, and 43%, respectively, compared with the original SSA.
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