Abstract: Signal filtering acts as one of the basic requirement of communication networks for the removal of unwanted features from the signal. The design of appropriate digital filter requires the selection of optimal filter coefficients for the generation of desired frequency response with reduced hardware complexity. This paper proposes a hybrid optimization algorithm named as Brain Storm- Grey Wolf Optimizer (BSGWO) algorithm for the selection of filter coefficients in the design of factored truncated cascade FIR filter. The proposed algorithm is the hybridization of the optimization algorithms, namely Brain Storm Optimization (BSO) and Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO). The input signal is interpolated initially for the formation of an intermediate signal using the FIR filter. Then, the factored truncated cascade filter is developed for the interpolation of the signal. After designing the filter coefficients, the optimal selection of the filter coefficients is performed using the proposed BSGWO algorithm. The original filter is developed with the use of the least square estimation and the new filter is developed using the proposed algorithm that tunes the filter coefficients. The performance of the proposed system is analyzed using the metrics, such as fitness, Mean Absolute Error (MAE), magnitude, and the number of components. The proposed method produces minimum fitness, MAE, magnitude and number of components of 0.05, 0.0155, −96.0 dB and 3372, respectively that shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Keywords: FIR filter, filter coefficients, frequency response, cascade filter, and least square estimation
