Particle swarm optimization for adaptive IIR filter structures

This paper introduces the application of particle swarm optimization techniques to infinite impulse response (IIR) adaptive filter structures. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is similar to the genetic algorithm (GA) in that it performs a structured randomized search of an unknown parameter space by manipulating a population of parameter estimates to converge on a suitable solution. Unlike the genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimization has not emerged in adaptive filtering literature. Both techniques are independent of the adaptive filter structure and are capable of converging on the global solution for multimodal optimization problems, which makes them especially useful for optimizing IIR and nonlinear adaptive filters. This paper outlines PSO and provides a comparison to the GA for IIR filter structures.