How to Draw a Straight Line Using a GP: Benchmarking Evolutionary Design Against 19 Century Kinematic Synthesis
Hod Lipson, Robert F. Willis · 2004
This paper discusses the application of genetic programming to the synthesis of compound 2D kinematic mechanisms, and benchmarks the results against one of the classical kinematic challenges of 19 century mechanical design. Considerations for selecting a representation for mechanism design are presented, and a number of human-competitive inventions are shown.