RT Journal Article
T1 Evolutionary development of tensegrity structures
A1 Lobo Fernández, Daniel
A1 Vico-Vela, Francisco José
K1 Genética molecular
K1 Aplicaciones informáticas
AB Contributions from the emerging fields of molecular genetics and evo-devo (evolutionary developmental biology) are greatly benefiting the field of evolutionary computation, initiating a promise of renewal in the traditional methodology. While direct encoding has constituted a dominant paradigm, indirect ways to encode the solutions have been reported, yet little attention has been paid to the benefits of the proposed methods to real problems. In this work, we study the biological properties that emerge by means of using indirect encodings in the context of form-finding problems. A novel indirect encoding model for artificial development has been defined and applied to an engineering structural-design problem, specifically to the discovery of tensegrity structures. This model has been compared with a direct encoding scheme. While the direct encoding performs similarly well to the proposed method, indirect-based results typically outperform the direct-based results in aspects not directly linked to the nature of the problem itself, but to the emergence of properties found in biological organisms, like organicity, generalization capacity, or modularity aspects which are highly valuable in engineering.
PB Elsevier
YR 2010
FD 2010
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10630/6744
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10630/6744
LA eng
NO Lobo D & Vico FJ (2010) Evolutionary development of tensegrity structures. Biosystems, 101(3): 167-176.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 24 ene 2026