A NEW ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING GEAR DESIGN PROBLEM

The design of gears is critical for smooth running of any mechanism, automobile and
machinery. Gear drive design starts with the need of optimizing the gear thickness, module, number
of teeth etc., this creates huge challenges to a designer. Optimization algorithms are more flexible
and gaining importance in engineering design problems, because of the accessibility and
affordability of today’s mechanical field. A population based heuristic algorithm offers well
organized ways of creating and comparing a novel design solution in order to complete an optimal
design. In this paper, a new artificial immune system-based algorithm proposed as Modified
Artificial Immune System (MAIS) algorithm is used to optimize a gear design problem. The results
are compared with an existing design.