Robust Particle Swarm Optimization

Robust Particle Swarm Optimization (Robust PSO) extends the classical PSO metaheuristic to explicitly account for uncertainty in the objective function, constraints, or decision variables. Rather than optimizing a single nominal objective, each candidate solution is evaluated over a set of uncertainty scenarios, and fitness is judged by a robustness criterion such as worst-case performance or expected value, yielding solutions that remain near-optimal even when conditions deviate from nominal assumptions.