Evolutionary Design for Multi-domain Engineering System - Air Pump Redesign

Engineering system co-design with limited plant redesign

Rather than designing engineering systems from the ground up, engineers often redesign strategic portions of existing systems to accommodate emerging needs. In the redesign of mechatronic systems, engineers typically seek to meet the requirements of a new application via control redesign only, but this is often insufficient and physical system (plant) design changes must be explored. Here, an i...

Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms for Engineering Shape Design

An interactive visualisation system for engineering design using evolutionary computing

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A Hybrid Multi-objective Evolutionary Approach to Engineering Shape Design

Evolutionary optimization algorithms work with a population of solutions, instead of a single solution. Since multi-objective optimization problems give rise to a set of Pareto-optimal solutions, evolutionary optimization algorithms are ideal for handling multi-objective optimization problems. Over many years of research and application studies have produced a number of efficient multi-objectiv...

Collective Specialization for Evolutionary Design of a Multi-robot System

This research is positioned in the context of controller design for (simulated) multi-robot applications. Inspired by research in survey and exploration of unknown environments where a multi-robot system is to discover features of interest given strict time and energy constraints, we defined an abstract task domain with adaptable features of interest. Additionally, we parameterized the behavior...