Automated design of a MEMS resonator

—As the application and complexity of microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices increases, there is a corresponding need for automated design and optimization tools to augment engineers’ design skills. Evolutionary computation provides a set of tools that may prove very effective in this application domain. Here we present a novel evolutionary computation encoding scheme for specifying MEMS designs, and use this scheme to evolve a MEMS meandering resonator. Using fewer evaluations, we are able to evolve designs that perform as well as those previous reported.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CEC
• Authors: Jason D. Lohn, William F. Kraus, Gregory S. Hornby
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, CEC 2007, Computation Encoding Scheme, Evolutionary Computation, MEMS Meandering Resonator