Automatic programming of a time-optimal robot controller and an analog electrical circuit to implement the robot controller by means of genetic programming

Source:

Proceedings of 1997 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, p.340--346 (1997)

URL:

http://www.genetic-programming.com/jkpdf/cira1997.pdf

Keywords:

genetic algorithms; genetic programming

Abstract:

Genetic programming is an automatic programming technique that evolves computer programs to solve, or approximately solve, problems. This paper presents two examples in which genetic programming creates a computer program for controlling a robot so that the robot moves to a specified destination point in minimal time. In the first approach, genetic programming evolves a computer program composed of ordinary arithmetic operations and conditional operations to implement a time-optimal control strategy. In the second approach, genetic programming evolves the design of an analog electrical circuit consisting of transistors, diodes, resistors, and power supplies to implement a near-optimal control strategy.