Title: Evolutionary algorithms and application to automatic control.
Abstract: Evolutionary algorithms are of great attentionsin the last decade.They are not only powerful search techniques for solving many conventional optimization problems but also being utilized in different artificial intelligent systems.The present paper intends to clarify the basic of evolutionary algorithms and their applicability to the issues of automatic control.In Section 2 the essence of general optimization problems is expressed.The fundamental of the theory of the natural evolution and that of the genetics will be shortly given in the third section.A combination of Section 2 and Section 3 indicates why and how the evolutionary algorithms have been developed.The ground stones of evolutionary algorithms, namely the parameter coding, the fitness and fitness scaling, the simulation of the reproduction and selection processes, the simulation of the crossover and the mutation, are clarified in Section 4 to 8. In the 9th section the handling of the equality