Using a neural network to determine fitness in genetic design

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 417-423

  Farritor, Shane ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EXPERT SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBOTICS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MACHINE DESIGN; MODULAR ROBOTS;

ADAPTIVE RESONANCE THEORY (ART); GENETIC DESIGN METHOD; AUTOMATED DESIGN; COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; GENERAL APPLICATIONS; NEURAL NETWORK STRUCTURES; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; TRAINING METHODS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING; NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 1542751053     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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