1986/01/01 by John Grefenstette, John J. Grefenstette · 30 citations
Engineering · Mathematics · #Advanced Control Systems Optimization #Control Systems and Identification #Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research
paper · doi:10.1109/tsmc.1986.289288
The task of optimizing a complex system presents at least two levels of problems for the system designer. First, a class of optimization algorithms must be chosen that is suitable for application to the system. Second, various parameters of the optimization algorithm need to be tuned for efficiency. A class of adaptive search procedures called genetic algorithms (GA) has been used to optimize a wide variety of complex systems. GA's are applied to the second level task of identifying efficient GA's for a set of numerical optimization problems. The results are validated on an image registration problem. GA's are shown to be effective for both levels of the systems optimization problem.