Multi-objective evolutionary design of robust controllers on the grid

  • Authors:
  • Alex Shenfield;Peter J. Fleming

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

Coupling conventional controller design methods, model based controller synthesis and simulation, and multi-objective evolutionary optimisation methods frequently results in an extremely computationally expensive design process. However, the emerging paradigm of grid computing provides a powerful platform for the solution of such problems by providing transparent access to large-scale distributed high-performance compute resources. As well as substantially speeding up the time taken to find a single controller design satisfying a set of performance requirements this grid-enabled design process allows a designer to effectively explore the solution space of potential candidate solutions. An example of this is in the multi-objective evolutionary design of robust controllers, where each candidate controller design has to be synthesised and the resulting performance of the compensated system evaluated by computer simulation. This paper introduces a grid-enabled framework for the multi-objective optimisation of computationally expensive problems which will then be demonstrated using and example of the multi-objective evolutionary design of a robust lateral stability controller for a real-world aircraft using H"~ loop shaping.