scholarly journals Modeling and multi-objective optimization of a gasoline engine using neural networks and evolutionary algorithms

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 657-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
José D. Martínez-Morales ◽  
Elvia R. Palacios-Hernández ◽  
Gerardo A. Velázquez-Carrillo
Author(s):  
Amit Banerjee ◽  
Issam Abu-Mahfouz ◽  
AHM Esfakur Rahman

Abstract Model-based design of manufacturing processes have been gaining popularity since the advent of machine learning algorithms such as evolutionary algorithms and artificial neural networks (ANN). The problem of selecting the best machining parameters can be cast an optimization problem given a cost function and by utilizing an input-output connectionist framework using as ANNs. In this paper, we present a comparison of various evolutionary algorithms for parameter optimization of an end-milling operation based on a well-known cost function from literature. We propose a modification to the cost function for milling and include an additional objective of minimizing surface roughness and by using NSGA-II, a multi-objective optimization algorithm. We also present comparison of several population-based evolutionary search algorithms such as variants of particle swarm optimization, differential evolution and NSGA-II.


Author(s):  
Zhenkun Wang ◽  
Qingyan Li ◽  
Qite Yang ◽  
Hisao Ishibuchi

AbstractIt has been acknowledged that dominance-resistant solutions (DRSs) extensively exist in the feasible region of multi-objective optimization problems. Recent studies show that DRSs can cause serious performance degradation of many multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs). Thereafter, various strategies (e.g., the $$\epsilon $$ ϵ -dominance and the modified objective calculation) to eliminate DRSs have been proposed. However, these strategies may in turn cause algorithm inefficiency in other aspects. We argue that these coping strategies prevent the algorithm from obtaining some boundary solutions of an extremely convex Pareto front (ECPF). That is, there is a dilemma between eliminating DRSs and preserving boundary solutions of the ECPF. To illustrate such a dilemma, we propose a new multi-objective optimization test problem with the ECPF as well as DRSs. Using this test problem, we investigate the performance of six representative MOEAs in terms of boundary solutions preservation and DRS elimination. The results reveal that it is quite challenging to distinguish between DRSs and boundary solutions of the ECPF.


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