Evolution strategies in optimization problems

Evolution strategies are inspired in biology and form part of a larger research field known as evolutionary algorithms. Those strategies perform a random search in the space of admissible functions, aiming to optimize some given objective function. We show that simple evolution strategies are a usef...

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Autor principal: Cruz, P.A.F. (author)
Outros Autores: Torres, D.F.M. (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2011
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10773/4123
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:ria.ua.pt:10773/4123
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Resumo:Evolution strategies are inspired in biology and form part of a larger research field known as evolutionary algorithms. Those strategies perform a random search in the space of admissible functions, aiming to optimize some given objective function. We show that simple evolution strategies are a useful tool in optimal control, permitting one to obtain, in an efficient way, good approximations to the solutions of some recent and challenging optimal control problems.