Genetic algorithm approach for designing higher-order digital differentiators. (Q1978403)

An effective approach is proposed for designing higher-order digital differentiators by the genetic algorithm method. By minimizing a quadratic measure of the error in the frequency band, appropriate crossover, mutation, and selection operations are used to get the filter coefficients. This method is not only simple and fast, but also optimal in the least-squares sense. Comparison to the well-known McClellan-Parks algorithm for minimax equiripple filters shows that both are optimal in the sense of different minimum norms of the error function, but much better performance is obtained with the proposed approach in most of the frequency band except in the narrow-band region near the cutoff edge.