Neuro-evolutionary Topology Optimization with Adaptive Improvement Threshold

• Published in: Applications of Evolutionary Computation Vol. 9028; pp. 655 - 666
• Main Authors: Aulig, Nikola, Olhofer, Markus
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2015; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Adaptive improvement threshold; Algorithms & data structures; Artificial intelligence; Covariance matrix adaptation; Hybrid algorithm; Network hardware; Neuro-evolution; Topology optimization

Recently a hybrid combination of neuro-evolution with a gradient-based topology optimization method was proposed, facilitating topology optimization of structures subject to objective functions for which gradient information is difficult to obtain. The approach substitutes analytical sensitivity inf...