Cluster ant colony hybrid algorithm for solving CVRP
A clustering ant colony hybrid algorithm was proposed for the vehicle routing problem with capacity constraints,which divided the vehicle routing problem into several traveling salesman prob-lems for solution.Firstly,the generation method of pheromones and paths in the ant colony algorithm was improved to effectively split and solve the vehicle routing problem;Then,by grading the popula-tion,the convergence speed of the ant colony algorithm was accelerated,and three neighborhood search operators were set to avoid the ant colony algorithm falling into local optima;Finally,simula-tion experiments were designed to reasonably design some parameters of the algorithm,and 50 Solo-mon benchmark examples were selected for experimental verification of the algorithm.The experimen-tal results show that the algorithm proposed in this paper has fast convergence speed,high stability,and good solution results.
vehicle routing problem with capacity constraintscluster analysisimproved ant colony algorithmpheromoneneighborhood search