The “InitialPopulationMatrix” parameter of the “optimoptions’ can be used to create an initial population.
options = optimoptions('ga', ‘InitialPopulationMatrix’, []);
You can refer to the population options of this function in this link:
Further, to access the population being generated in each iteration, refer the page linked below:
The custom output function plots the population values being generated with each iteration and saves it to the base workspace which can be used in external simulation software.
