Abstract
Genetic programming has proved its potential for
automated synthesis of a variety of engineering systems
such as electrical, control, and mechanical systems.
Given any of these application domains, a set of
generic GP functions can be developed for its
synthesis. In this chapter, however, we illustrate that
while a generic GP system can often be used to prove a
concept, realistic or industrial automated synthesis
often requires domain-specific GP configuration,
especially of the GP function sets. As a case study, it
is shown how the open-ended topology search capability
of GP readily exploits _loopholes_ in a generic
bond-graph-based GP function set and evolves
high-performance but unrealistic mechanical vibration
absorbers, even though the bond graphs would be readily
implementable in, for example, the electrical domain.
The preliminary attempt to constrain evolved topologies
to only those that would be readily implementable in
the mechanical domain was not sufficiently
restrictive.
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