This study proposes an orthogonal momentum-type
particle swarm optimization (PSO) that finds good
solutions to global optimization problems using a delta
momentum rule to update the flying velocity of particles
and incorporating a fractional factorial design (FFD) via
several factorial experiments to determine the best
position of particles. The novel combination of the
momentum-type PSO and FFD is termed as the momentum-type PSO
with FFD herein. The momentum-type PSO modifies the
velocity-updating equation of the original Kennedy and
Eberhart PSO, and the FFD incorporates classical
orthogonal arrays into a velocity-updating equation for
analyzing the best factor associated with cognitive
learning and social learning terms. Twelve widely used
large parameter optimization problems were used to
evaluate the performance of the proposed PSO with the
original PSO, momentum-type PSO, and original PSO with
FFD. Experimental results reveal that the proposed
momentum-type PSO with an FFD algorithm efficiently solves
large parameter optimization problems.