Towards generating diverse topologies of path tracing compliant mechanisms using a local search based multi-objective genetic algorithm procedure

2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2004-2011

  Sharma, Deepak ^a,b   Deb, Kalyanmoy ^a   Kishore, N N ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CURVE FITTING; DESIGN; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; MACHINE DESIGN; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANISMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOLUTIONS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY; TRAJECTORIES;

ADDITIONAL CONSTRAINTS; ARBITRARY SUPPORTS; BINARY STRINGS; COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; FE ANALYSES; FEASIBLE DESIGNS; GLOBAL SEARCHES; LOCAL SEARCHES; MULTI-OBJECTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NSGA-II; OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATIONS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; PARALLEL COMPUTING; PATH TRACINGS; PRECISION POINTS; REFERENCE DESIGNS; SINGLE OBJECTIVES; STRAIGHT LINES;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 55749094487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2008.4631063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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