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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I am trying to use GA for a controller problem. Besides
the objective function, it has a unequality constraint to keep the system
stable. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Could I use penalty method to transform the constrainted
problem into unconstrainted problem? Is that reasonable here? Or any other
suggestions?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Thanks a lot</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Yanan Zhao</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>