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Fitness Function

All previous experiments used handwritten fitness functions to guide the search For EvoCAD we need instead to compute a generic fitness value for any BPDL structure. Although optimized fitness functions will require further study, the fitness of a structure S has been defined as:

 \begin{displaymath}
\sum _{t\in \text {targets}}\frac{1}{1+d(S,t)}+\sum _{l\in \...
...}
l\in \text {loads}\\
d(S,l)=0
\end{array}}\text {supp}(S,l)
\end{displaymath} (2.13)

(where d computes the distance between a point and the nearest brick in the structure, and supp uses the simulator to compute the fraction of a certain load that the structure supports)



Pablo Funes
2001-05-08