Soft Computing based CAD Packages for EM Applications

Balamati Choudhury; Rakesh Mohan Jha

doi:10.1017/CBO9781316402924.010

9 - Soft Computing based CAD Packages for EM Applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016

Balamati Choudhury and

Rakesh Mohan Jha

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Balamati Choudhury: Affiliation:
National Aerospace Laboratories
Rakesh Mohan Jha: Affiliation:
National Aerospace Laboratories

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This chapter covers the use of soft computing for creating various CAD packages. These packages deliver a range of features including efficiency, quick response as well as an easy-to-use user interface that allows even users not well versed with soft computing to arrive at optimized solutions for their applications. In the chapter, the development of two such CAD packages is discussed: one for the design of metamaterial split ring resonators and the other for path loss prediction in rural and urban environments. The CAD package for metamaterial structures uses PSO for design optimization whereas the path loss prediction CAD package uses neural network. Soft computing techniques based CAD package are gaining momentum in the field of electromagnetic (EM) applications because of their properties such as global optimization, quick response and accuracy [Mishra and Patnaik, 1993].

CAD Package for Metamaterial Structures

Metamaterials are artificially designed EM structures that acts as an effective medium with negative refractive index at a desired frequency of operation. Split ring resonators (SRR) are proven metamaterial structures for various applications such as metamaterial based antennas, radar absorbing materials, THz absorbers for biomedical applications, frequency selective surfaces, invisibility cloaks [Kwon et al., 2007; Jin and Samii, 2007; Goudos and Sahalos, 2006; Ivsic et al., 2010], etc. Due to the inherent narrowband operation of the split-ring resonators, it is critical to ensure that the resonant frequency of the same is equal to that of the application.

Therefore, a CAD package is developed here to obtain the optimized structural parameters for different configurations of the metamaterial SRR for a desired frequency of operation. This CAD package uses particle swarm optimization (PSO), which is based on the movement and intelligence of swarms as discussed in Chapter 2, for optimizing difficult multidimensional discontinuous problems. The equivalent circuit analysis (ECA) method is used here as an electromagnetic solution tool for SRR design optimization. Hence PSO in conjunction with ECA method provides optimal structural parameters of the different configurations of SRRs.

Equivalent circuit analysis of square SRR

The analysis of metamaterial structures is carried out using equivalent circuit analysis method where the metamaterial SRR is represented as equivalent circuit of lumped elements. Several metamaterial configurations, such as single ring, double ring, and triple ring square SRR are considered. In addition to these structures, circular SRR is also analyzed.

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Type: Chapter
Information: Soft Computing in Electromagnetics
Methods and Applications
, pp. 182 - 204

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316402924.010 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2016

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