The merit_function fitness assessor uses an exterior penalty function
formulation to penalize infeasible designs. The specification allows the input
of a constraint_penalty which is the multiplier to use on the constraint
violations.
Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA-0003525.