An evolutionary optimization approach for bulk material blending systems

  • Authors:
  • Michael P. Cipold;Pradyumn Kumar Shukla;Claus C. Bachmann;Kaibin Bao;Hartmut Schmeck

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany,J&C Bachmann GmbH, Bad Wildbad, Germany;Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany;J&C Bachmann GmbH, Bad Wildbad, Germany;Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany;Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

  • Venue:
  • PPSN'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Bulk material blending systems still mostly implement static and non-reactive material blending methods like the well-known Chevron stacking. The optimization potential in the existing systems which can be made available using quality analyzing methods as online X-ray fluorescence measurement is inspected in detail in this paper using a multi-objective optimization approach based on steady state evolutionary algorithms. We propose various Baldwinian and Lamarckian repair algorithms, test them on real world problem data and deliver optimized solutions which outperform the standard techniques.