MOWO: A novel multi-objective walrus optimizer for constrained engineering problems
摘要
An engineering-oriented multi-objective walrus optimizer (MOWO) is proposed for solving constrained multi-objective optimization problems in offshore structural design. Built upon the walrus optimizer, MOWO integrates fast non-dominated sorting, crowding distance-based diversity preservation, and an elitist selection mechanism to perform efficient Pareto-based multi-objective search. The proposed algorithm is comprehensively validated on 32 case studies, covering classical unconstrained benchmark suites (ZDT, DTLZ, and WFG), constrained benchmarks (CEC2009), and 10 real-world engineering design problems. Comprehensive comparative analyses are conducted against 18 well-known multi-objective optimization algorithms. Furthermore, an automated optimization workflow is developed by coupling MOWO with SACS via Python-based secondary development and is applied to the multi-objective optimization of a deep-water jacket platform under extreme environmental load combinations. The obtained Rank 1 Pareto set yields a large number of feasible design alternatives, revealing that the primary trade-off is dominated by structural weight versus member utilization, while displacement and pile utilization exhibit limited variation within the feasible design region. The source code of MOWO is publicly available at https://github.com/Yuanqyzs/MOWO.