(International Invited Lecturer) Ducted traced quasioptimum determination

JORGE E. NÚÑEZ MC LEOD

San Pablo

Congreso; 10th World Congress on Computational Mechanics; 2012

International Association of Computational Mechanics

Abstract. During recent decades, there has been a strong development of global and local search methods based on stochastic processes. Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) grouped a set of techniques based on the laws of evolution from Charles Darwin. It tries to mimic the evolutionary processes by stochastic processes.There are three main branches within the EA: genetic algorithms, evolutionary strategies and evolutionary programming. The first two techniques were devel-oped independently in United States and Germany respectively. Of particular in-terest are its applications to nonlinear problems with functions that have localized peaks, are continuous by sections, have minimum and/or maximum widespread premises, etc.In any of its three main aspects: genetic algorithms, evolutionary strategies and genetic programming, these techniques have been open way and reinforced in their applications in areas as diverse as the segmentation of images and the reliability of systems. But a new field of application is being developed against the possibility of access of remote sensing technology. We refer to the possibility of using technology of radar images and techniques of interferometry for the construction of digital elevation (DEM) models. DEM provide topo-graphical models of the terrain with adequate accuracy and time relatively short. On the other hand the development of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)2allow access to digitized information of urban areas, routes, rail lines, lakes, fauna reserves, etc.This whole range of techniques and technologies can be harmoniously con-verge to perform studies on the trace of pipelines, routes and lying electric high voltage. Even today the trace, for example, pipeline trace is done with methodolo-gies that optimize at the discretion of a surveyor and stretches the length; but that it is far from allowing an overall optimization of the trace. In the following is in-troduced the discussion of the characteristics required to deal with these types of traces using modern technologies referred to in the preceding paragraph.