Sensor/actuators placement on civil structures using a real-coded genetic algorithm

Andy Richardson; Makola M. Abdullah

doi:10.1117/12.472560

28 June 2002 Sensor/actuators placement on civil structures using a real-coded genetic algorithm

Andy Richardson, Makola M. Abdullah

Proceedings Volume 4696, Smart Structures and Materials 2002: Smart Systems for Bridges, Structures, and Highways; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.472560
Event: SPIE's 9th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, 2002, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The optimal design and placement of controllers at discrete locations on civil engineering structures is an important control problem that will have impact on the earthquake engineering community. Though algorithms exist for the placement of sensor/actuator systems on continuous structures, the placement of controllers on discrete civil structures is a very difficult problem. Because of the nature of civil structures, it is not possible to place sensors and actuators at any location in the structure. This usually creates a nonlinear constrained mixed integer problem that can be very difficult to solve. However, genetic algorithms have been found to be a powerful too in solving such problems. The introduction of algorithms based on genetic search procedures should increase the rate of convergence and thus reduce the computational time for solving the difficult control problem. In this research task, a real coded genetic algorithm will be used to simultaneously place and design a control system for a civil engineering structure. The proposed method of simultaneously placing and designing sensor/actuators will be compared to a similar work that used a hybrid method. The hybrid method involves using a genetic algorithm to place the sensor/actuators, followed by a gradient-based method to determine the optimal controller gains. The proposed method is more convenient, in that both placement and design is done in the same algorithm, and as such it has a better convergence rate than the hybrid method.

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Andy Richardson and Makola M. Abdullah "Sensor/actuators placement on civil structures using a real-coded genetic algorithm", Proc. SPIE 4696, Smart Structures and Materials 2002: Smart Systems for Bridges, Structures, and Highways, (28 June 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.472560

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