Robust Design using Pareto type optimization: A genetic algorithm with arithmetic crossover

  • Authors:
  • Onur Köksoy;Tankut Yalcinoz

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Nigde University, Nigde 51200, Turkey;Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Nigde University, Nigde 51200, Turkey

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Industrial Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In dual response systems (DRSs) optimization restrictions on the secondary response may rule out better conditions, since an acceptable value for the secondary response is usually unknown. In fact, process conditions that result in a smaller standard deviation are often preferable. Recently, several authors stated that the standard deviation of any performance property could be treated as a new property in its own right as far as Pareto optimizer was concerned. By doing this, there will be many alternative solutions (i.e., the trade-offs between the mean and standard deviation responses) of the DRS problem and Pareto optimization can explore them all. Such analysis is useful, and that is required in order to achieve an improved understanding of the problem before searching for a final optimal solution. In this paper, we again follow this new philosophy and solve the DRS problem by using a genetic algorithm with arithmetic crossover. The genetic algorithm is applied to the printing process problem for improving the quality of a printing process. Genetic algorithms, in contrast to the one-solution-at-a-time approach of most optimization algorithms, maintain a population of hundreds, or thousands, of solutions in speedy manner.