Coupler-Curve synthesis of a planar four-bar mechanism using NSGA-II

  • Authors:

  • Jaideep Badduri;Rangaprasad Arun Srivatsan;Gurunathan Saravana Kumar;Sandipan Bandyopadhyay

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Engineering Design, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India;Department of Engineering Design, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India;Department of Engineering Design, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India;Department of Engineering Design, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

  • Venue:
  • SEAL'12 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper applies a genetic algorithm-based optimisation procedure, namely, NSGA-II, to the problem of synthesis of a four-bar mechanism. The internal parameters of ${\texttt{\rm NSGA-II}}$ are tuned using a Design of Experiments (DoE) procedure to enhance the quality of the final results. Constraints are handled through a penalty formulation. Further, a scaling function is introduced, which transforms the penalty terms in a manner that leads to faster convergence of the solutions. The theoretical developments are illustrated via applications to two well-studied problems in the domain of coupler-curve synthesis. A comparison of the results vis-a-vis existing ones shows that the proposed enhancements of the basic scheme of ${\texttt{\rm NSGA-II}}$ deliver promising improvements in terms of accuracy, and rate of convergence of the solutions.