
Finally, in the third section, we briefly review four other engineering applica-
tions in widely diverse areas: ingredient mix optimization, battery state-of-
charge estimation, electric power and voltage management, and computer
numerical control machine optimization.
It’s time to put on your hard hats! We tried to minimize the “engineer-ese,”
but this chapter is decidedly applications oriented, and the writing unashamedly
reflects that.
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Evolving Neural Networks with Particle Swarms
Neural network and evolutionary computation methodologies have
each been proven effective in solving certain classes of problems. For ex-
ample, neural networks are very