“…PSO has been chosen due to its simplicity, easy implementation, high accuracy, faster convergence, lesser control parameters, and computational efficiency (Zang et al, 2021;Zhang et al, 2014). Hence, owing to its numerous advantages, PSO has gained a lot of attention in many areas like signal denoising (Zhang et al, 2017), load forecasting (Kumar & Veerakumari, 2012), filter design (Sharma et al, 2016), image processing (Satish & Kumar, 2020), fault diagnosis (Zhang & Wang, 2020), etc. However, PSO suffers from the local optimum problem.…”