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Computationally-Efficient EM-Simulation-Driven Multi-objective Design of Compact Microwave Structures

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Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications

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The size of microwave components has become an important design criterion for contemporary wireless communication engineering. Unfortunately, reduction of geometrical dimensions usually remain in conflict with electrical performance of the circuit, which makes it necessary to look for designs being a compromise between these two types of objectives. In this chapter, we discuss strategies for computationally-efficient multi-objective design optimization of miniaturized microwave structures. More specifically, we consider an optimization methodology based on point-by-point identification of a Pareto-optimal set of designs representing the best possible trade-offs between conflicting objectives, which include electrical performance parameters as well as the size of the structure of interest. Design speedup is achieved by performing most of the operations at the level of suitably corrected equivalent circuit model of the structure under design. Model correction is implemented using a space mapping technique involving, among others, frequency scaling. Operation and performance of our approach is demonstrated using a compact rat-race coupler designed with respect to the following objectives: bandwidth and the layout area. A representation of the Pareto set consisting of ten designs is obtained at the cost corresponding to less than thirty high-fidelity electromagnetic simulations of the structure.

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The authors thank Computer Simulation Technology AG, Darmstadt, Germany, for making CST Microwave Studio available. This work was supported in part by the Icelandic Centre for Research (RANNIS) Grant 13045051.

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  1. Engineering Optimization & Modeling Center, School of Science and Engineering, Reykjavik University, Menntavegur 1, Reykjavik, IS-101, Iceland

    Slawomir Koziel & Adrian Bekasiewicz

  2. Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology, 80-233, Gdansk, Poland

    Piotr Kurgan

  3. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, 50011 IA, USA

    Leifur Leifsson

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Koziel, S., Bekasiewicz, A., Kurgan, P., Leifsson, L. (2015). Computationally-Efficient EM-Simulation-Driven Multi-objective Design of Compact Microwave Structures. In: Obaidat, M., Ören, T., Kacprzyk, J., Filipe, J. (eds) Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 402. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26470-7_12

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