Evolutionary Design and Optimization of Aircraft Engine Controllers.

The article presents methods to automatically identify and optimize controllers for large-scale complex dynamic systems; in particular, aircraft gas turbine engines. It shows how the optimization of different elements within the overall controller can be addressed in an efficient fashion. Evolutionary design and optimization of aircraft engine control systems is a novel applications domain, and therefore there are relatively few reported results in the literature. The article describes the optimization for select control variables in the first four categories. Design changes in the control logic structure have not yet been considered.