Application of evolutionary strategies to optimal design of multibody systems

Multibody System Dynamics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 393-408

  Datoussaid, Selim ^a   Verlinden, Olivier ^a   Conti, Calogero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Evolutionary strategy; Kinematics; Multibody systems; Optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GENES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION;

MULTIBODY SYSTEMS;

KINEMATICS;

EID: 0036861795     PISSN: 13845640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021101912826     Document Type: Article

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