Cuckoo Search algorithm: A metaheuristic approach to solving the problem of optimum synthesis of a six-bar double dwell linkage

Mechanism and Machine Theory

Volumn 61, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-13

  Bulatović, Radovan R ^a   Dordević, Stevan R ^b   Dordević, Vladimir S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Circular arc; Cuckoo Search; Double dwell; Optimum synthesis; Six bar linkage

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR ARC; CUCKOO SEARCHES; DOUBLE-DWELL; OPTIMUM SYNTHESIS; SIX-BAR LINKAGES;

MECHANISMS;

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 84869107693     PISSN: 0094114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2012.10.010     Document Type: Article

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