Towards the automated design of phased array ultrasonic transducers - Using particle swarms to find "smart" start points

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4570 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 313-323

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

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Acoustic Ideas Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONTINUUM DAMAGE MECHANICS; COST FUNCTIONS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EVOLUTION STRATEGY (ES); PHASED ARRAY ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; SURFACE GEOMETRY;

ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 37249091129     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73325-6_31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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