Abstract
This paper describes a new approach to solve balancing of a rigid rotor. In this paper, the balancing of the rigid rotor using genetic algorithms, which are search algorithms based on the mechanics of natural selection and natural genetics is proposed. Under the assumption that the initial vibration values used to calculate correction masses contain errors, the influence coefficient method, the least squares method and a genetic algorithm are compared. The results show that the vibration amplitude obtained with the least squares method and the genetic algorithm is smaller than that obtained with the influence coefficient method.