15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
PERFORMANCE AND ROBUSTNESS DESIGN OF CONTROL SYSTEMS VIA GENETIC-SEX MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION
Zdzislaw Kowalczuk and Tomasz Bialaszewski
Department of Automatic Control, W.E.T.I. Technical University of Gdańsk
Narutowicza 11/12, PL-80-952 Gdańsk, Poland
fax: +48 58 3416132, e-mail: kova@pg.gda.pl, biala@ue.eti.pg.gda.pl

A new evolutionary method of solving multi-objective optimization problems is presented. This method utilizes the information about an individual sex for the purpose of distinction between different groups of objectives. In particular, this information is extracted from the fitness of individuals and applied during the parental crossovers in a multi-objective optimization process. Characteristics of this mechanism are discussed and its performance in an exemplary multi-objective PID control optimization task is presented.
Keywords: Genetic algorithms, multi-objective optimization, Pareto-optimality
Session slot T-Th-M16: Evolutionary Algorithms in Control Design/Area code 2a : Control Design