Variant of the charged system search algorithm for the design of optimal linear phase finite impulse response filters

Digital signal filtering is one of the prime area which is frequently used in practical applications. In the class of digital filters, the prominent filters include - filters with finite impulse response (FIR) and filters with infinite impulse response (IIR). Low pass, high pass, band pass and band stop filters are the different types of filters that are currently employed for carrying out filtering actions. Filters are used for practical applications to reduce the noise incurred while processing the signals received, whether it may be an audio signal, video signal, bio-medical signal and so on. The key features for the design of filters include the optimization of coefficients and in turn the design of coefficients is based on attaining maximum stop band attenuation with less ripple rates. This paper proposes the soft computing based wavelet concept being introduced in the charged system search algorithm at the updation process. The scaling factor in the updation equation is implemented with a wavelet introduced to improve the exploration and exploitation capability of the algorithm. This introduction of wavelet into the algorithm results in faster convergence of the algorithm and proves its effectiveness in comparison with that of the other approaches as available in the literature.