Abstract: Aiming at  the problems that  the whale optimization algorithm was prone to getting stuck in local optima and had drawbacks such as slow  speed control response and large overshoot of brushless DC motor, we  proposed an improved whale optimization algorithm (IWOA) for optimizing proportional integral derivative (PID) parameters in brushless DC motor speed control. The algorithm combined Gaussian mutation factor, adaptive weight factor, and dynamic threshold to optimize the whale optimization algorithm. The simulation experiment results show that the  improved whale optimization  PID speed control algorithm of brushless DC motor has faster  convergence rate, smaller overshoot phenomenon, and better robustness.

Key words: PID control, improved , whale optimization algorithm, speed control, brushless DC motor