Multi-objective optimization technique for simulated active body control with frictional contacts

  • Authors:
  • Livia Sangeorzan;Mircea Parpalea;Cezar Podasca;Milan Tuba

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania;National College "Andrei Saguna", Romania and Megatrend University Belgrade, Serbia;Department of Medicine, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania;-

  • Venue:
  • MMACTEE'09 Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS international conference on Mathematical methods and computational techniques in electrical engineering
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The Genetic Algorithm is a stochastic optimization routine based on Darwin's theory of evolution and genetics. An evolutionary process arrives at the optimized solution over several iterations (generations), by selecting only the best (the fittest) solutions and allowing these to survive and form the basis for calculating the next round of solutions. In this manner the optimization routine evolves the initial solutions to the optimum. The simultaneous optimization of multiple, possibly competing, objective functions deviates from scalar objective optimization. Instead of finding one perfect solution, multi-objective optimization problems tend to be characterized by a family of alternatives that must be considered equivalent in the absence of information concerning the relevance of each objective relative to the others. Therefore, the first objective in multi-objective optimization is to find the Pareto set, and the next is to select a proper solution from the found Pareto solution set. Although standing is easily mastered by humans, it requires careful and deliberate manipulation of contact forces. The variation in contact configuration presents a real challenge for simulations while performing tasks in the presence of external disturbances. An analytic approach for control of standing in three-dimensional simulations is described based upon local optimization.