Evolutionary computation for wind farm layout optimization

This paper presents the results of the second edition of the Wind Farm Layout Optimization Competition, which was held at the 22nd Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference (GECCO) in 2015. During this competition, competitors were tasked with optimizing the layouts of five generated wind farms based on a simplified cost of energy evaluation function of the wind farm layouts. Online and offline APIs were implemented in C++, Java, Matlab and Python for this competition to offer a common framework for the competitors. The top four approaches out of eight participating teams are presented in this paper and their results are compared. All of the competitors' algorithms use evolutionary computation, the research field of the conference at which the competition was held. Competitors were able to downscale the optimization problem size (number of parameters) by casting the wind farm layout problem as a geometric optimization problem. This strongly reduces the number of evaluations (limited in the scope of this competition) with extremely promising results

Reconstrucción de superficies mediante procesos Gaussianos

En muchas aplicaciones (tales como odontología, manufactura, arqueología o aplicaciones culturales) es necesario utilizar modelos tridimensionales (super cies poligonales) que provengan de objetos del mundo real, tales como esculturas, piezas de maquinaria, objetos arqueológicos, prototipos de objetos para la creación de juegos, entre otros. Para esto se utilizan dispositivos de adquisición tales como los escáneres 3D, que generan una nube de puntos que se usa para reconstruir un modelo del objeto original