Summary
International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation
2009
Session Number:3E1
Session:
Number:3E1-1
A Procedure for Designing a Patch Antenna using Multi-level Boolean Particle Swarm Optimization
Waroth Kuhirun,
pp.1063-1066
Publication Date:2009/10/21
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Optimization is one of the most important problems in engineering. There are various optimization techniques; one of which is particle swarm optimization. It was first introduced in [1]. Recently, an application of particle swarm optimization in antenna engineering was demonstrated in [2]. Marandi [3] introduced an application of Boolean particle swarm optimization to designing a dual-band planar antenna. Detailed discussion on Boolean particle swarm optimization is available in section 2. Later, Duvigneau [4] presented an application of multi-level swarm optimization to Aerodynamic shape optimization. Modified from [4], this paper presents a procedure for designing a patch antenna using multi-level Boolean particle swarm optimization. Multi-level Boolean particle swarm optimization is a further development of Boolean particle swarm optimization and inspired by multigrid method; Multigrid method [5] is a well-known numerical technique for accelerating the rate of convergence in solving linear system equations using iterative methods.