Mariusz Bujny
ABSTRACT
The main goal in structural Topology Optimization is to find an optimal distribution of material within a defined design domain, under specified boundary conditions. This task is frequently solved with gradient-based methods, but for some problems, e.g. in the domain of crash Topology Optimization, analytical sensitivity information is not available. The recent Evolutionary Level Set Method (EA-LSM) uses Evolutionary Strategies and a representation based on geometric Level Set Functions to solve such problems. However, computational costs associated with Evolutionary Algorithms are relatively high and grow significantly with rising dimensionality of the optimization problem. In this paper, we propose an improved version of EA-LSM, exploiting an adaptive representation, where the number of structural components increases during the optimization. We employ a learning-based approach, where a pre-trained neural network model predicts favorable topological changes, based on the structural state of the design. The proposed algorithm converges quickly at the beginning, determining good designs in low-dimensional search spaces, and the representation is gradually extended by increasing structural complexity. The approach is evaluated on a standard minimum compliance design problem and its superiority with respect to a random adaptive method is demonstrated.
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