Automated Re-invention of a Previously Patented
Optical Lens System Using Genetic Programming
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Genetic
Programming, volume 3447 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 25--37. Lausanne, Switzerland, Springer, (30 March - 1 April 2005)Abstract
The three dozen or so known instances of
human-competitive designs produced by genetic
programming for antennas, mechanical systems, circuits,
and controllers raise the question of whether the
genetic programming can be extended to the design of
complex structures from other fields. This paper
discusses efforts to apply genetic programming to the
automated design of optical lens systems. The paper can
be read from two different perspectives. First,
broadly, it chronicles the step-by-step process by
which the authors approached the problem of applying
genetic programming to a domain that was new to them.
Second, more narrowly, it describes the use of genetic
programming to re-create the complete design for the
previously patented Tackaberry-Muller optical lens
system. Genetic programming accomplished this "from
scratch" without starting from a pre-specified number
of lens and a pre-specified layout and without starting
from a pre-existing good design. The genetically
evolved design for the Tackaberry-Muller lens system is
an example, in the field of optical design, of a
human-competitive result produced by genetic
programming.
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