I need efficiently initialize a population of soldiers (particles) with random positions within feasible bounds in MATLAB?

I'm working on WSO for optimal placement of capacitor. How can you efficiently initialize a population of soldiers (particles) with random positions within feasible bounds in MATLAB?

Answer 1

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Use the rand function to generate random numbers within the specified limits for each decision variable.

Example, to create a 50x2 matrix of random capacitor locations between buses 2 and 33

soldier_positions = 2 + (32-2).*rand(50,2);