An evolution strategy for improving the design of phased array transducers

2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2859-2863

  Chen, Stephen ^a   Razzaqi, Sarah ^b   Lupien, Vincent ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Acoustic Ideas Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM APPLICATIONS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INSTRUMENT COMPONENTS; MATLAB; OPTIMIZATION;

CONTINUUM PROBE DESIGNER; OPTIMAL PROBE GEOMETRY; TOOLBOX;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 34547275842     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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