TY - JOUR
T1 - EcoRacer
T2 - Game-Based Optimal Electric Vehicle Design and Driver Control Using Human Players
AU - Ren, Yi
AU - Bayrak, Alparslan Emrah
AU - Papalambros, Panos Y.
PY - 2016/6/1
Y1 - 2016/6/1
N2 - We compare the performance of human players against that of the efficient global optimization (EGO) algorithm for an NP-complete powertrain design and control problem. Specifically, we cast this optimization problem as an online competition and received 2391 game plays by 124 anonymous players during the first month from launch. We found that while only a small portion of human players can outperform the algorithm in the long term, players tend to formulate good heuristics early on that can be used to constrain the solution space. Such constraining of the search enhances algorithm efficiency, even for different game settings. These findings indicate that human-assisted computational searches are promising in solving comprehensible yet computationally hard optimal design and control problems, when human players can outperform the algorithm in a short term.
AB - We compare the performance of human players against that of the efficient global optimization (EGO) algorithm for an NP-complete powertrain design and control problem. Specifically, we cast this optimization problem as an online competition and received 2391 game plays by 124 anonymous players during the first month from launch. We found that while only a small portion of human players can outperform the algorithm in the long term, players tend to formulate good heuristics early on that can be used to constrain the solution space. Such constraining of the search enhances algorithm efficiency, even for different game settings. These findings indicate that human-assisted computational searches are promising in solving comprehensible yet computationally hard optimal design and control problems, when human players can outperform the algorithm in a short term.
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U2 - 10.1115/1.4033426
DO - 10.1115/1.4033426
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84973530118
SN - 1050-0472
VL - 138
JO - Journal of Mechanical Design
JF - Journal of Mechanical Design
IS - 6
ER -