The paper presents a control strategy for a hyper redundant micromanipulator that has the particularity to have either a) binary joints: only a small finite number of position are allowed within min and max bounds and b) continuous joints: the joint can move continuously within its min and max bounds. The problem optimization is double: a)solve inverse kinematics for this kind of system and b) ...

The use of optimization methods in engineering is increasing. Process and product optimization, inverse problems, shape optimization, and topology optimization are frequent problems both in industry and science communities. In this paper, an optimization framework for engineering inverse problems such as the parameter identification and the shape optimization problems is presented. It inherits ...

This paper presents an inverse simulation methodology based on numerical optimization. The methodology is applied to a simplified version of the slalom maneuver in the ADS-33D helicopter handling qualities specifications. The inverse simulation is formulated as an optimization problem with trajectory and dynamic constraints, pilot inputs as design variables, and an objective function that depen...

We applied an inverse synthesis method to design phase-shifting mask (PSM) via gradient descent optimization under the coherent illumination assumption. The synthesized PSMs have high fidelity and sharp image slope. ©2007 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (100.3190) Inverse problems; (110.5220) Photolithography

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) aims in reconstructing resistivity distribution of inhomogeneous objects, by using the voltage measurements from the boundary electrodes and facilitates in solving non linear inverse problems. For the medical imaging research community, developing a suitable reconstruction algorithm is a challenging task as the inverse problem in EIT is severely ill-posed. ...

A viscous discrete adjoint approach to automatic aerodynamic shape optimization is developed, and the merits of the viscous discrete and continuous adjoint approaches are discussed. The viscous discrete and continuous adjoint gradients for inverse design and drag minimization cost functions are compared with finite-difference and complex-step gradients. The optimization of airfoils in two-dimen...

The vibration pattern of a rotor system reflects the mechanical parameter changes in the system. Hence, the use of vibration monitoring is considered as a possible means of detecting the presence and growth of the cracks. In this paper, a pattern search based method for shaft crack detection is proposed and described which formulates the shaft crack detection as an optimization problem by means...

Optical proximity correction (OPC) and phase shifting masks (PSM) are resolution enhancement techniques (RET) used extensively in the semiconductor industry to improve the resolution and pattern fidelity of optical lithography. In this paper, we develop generalized gradient-based RET optimization methods to solve for the inverse lithography problem, where the search space is not constrained to ...

This paper is devoted to the problem of sampling Gaussian fields in high dimension. Solutions exist for two specific structures of inverse covariance : sparse and circulant. The proposed approach is valid in a more general case and especially as it emerges in inverse problems. It relies on a perturbation-optimization principle: adequate stochastic perturbation of a criterion and optimization of...

In this paper feedforward controller is designed to eliminate nonlinear hysteresis behaviors of a piezoelectric stack actuator (PSA) driven system. The control design is based on inverse Prandtl-Ishlinskii (P-I) hysteresis model identified using particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique. Based on the identified P-I model, both the inverse P-I hysteresis model and feedforward controller can be...