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Hardware Evolution of Analog Speed Controllers for a DC Motor

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Genetic and Evolutionary Computation — GECCO 2003 (GECCO 2003)

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Evolvable hardware provides the capability to evolve analog circuits to produce amplifier and filter functions. Conventional analog controller designs employ these same functions. Analog controllers for the control of the shaft speed of a DC motor are evolved on an evolvable hardware plaform utilizing a Field Programmable Transistor Array (FPTA). The performance of these evolved controllers is compared to that of a conventional proportional-integral (PI) controller. It is shown that hardware evolution is able to create a compact design that provides good performance, while using considerably less functional electronic components than the conventional design.

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  1. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, 35812, USA

    David A. Gwaltney

  2. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91109, USA

    Michael I. Ferguson

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    Erick Cantú-Paz

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Gwaltney, D.A., Ferguson, M.I. (2003). Hardware Evolution of Analog Speed Controllers for a DC Motor. In: Cantú-Paz, E., et al. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation — GECCO 2003. GECCO 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2723. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45105-6_55

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