Algorithms that design structures better than engineers

Re:Algorithms that design structures better than engineers by bencollier49 on Friday January 25, 2013 @11:16AM (#5116089)

One of my lecturers (many years ago) did some interesting work synthesising circuits like band-pass filters using genetic algorithms:

http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~stsgrimb/netsyn.htm

The algorithms came up with some very unusual circuit designs which did the job better than classical solutions, in some cases.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Algorithms that design structures better than engineers by crististm on Friday January 25, 2013 @03:36PM (#5117491)

That looks very good as a starting point.

Im the demo page I was looking for the BOM and the parts values. Being non-standard this implies limitted applicability in practice.

Did you consider adding constraints to part values?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Algorithms that design structures better than engineers by bencollier49 on Monday February 04, 2013 @07:45AM (#5163786)

You'd have to ask the chap who did it! This wasn't mentioned though. I think the code is available in the papers concerned; it would be relatively trivial to add "rounding to nearest available part" to the assessment criteria, I imagine.

[ Parent | on HN ]