Evolution Strategies are inspired in biology and part of a larger research
field known as Evolutionary Algorithms. Those strategies perform a random
search in the space of admissible functions, aiming to optimize some given
objective function. We show that simple evolution strategies are a useful tool
in optimal control, permitting to obtain, in an efficient way, good
approximations to the solutions of some recent and challenging optimal control
problems.Comment: Partially presented at the 5th Junior European Meeting on "Control
and Information Technology" (JEM'06), Sept 20-22, 2006, Tallinn, Estonia. To
appear in "Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences -- Physics
Mathematics
