Self-adaptive differential evolution applied to real-valued antenna and microwave design problems

Sotirios K. Goudos, Katherine Siakavara, Theodoros Samaras, Elias E. Vafiadis, John N. Sahalos

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Abstract

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is an evolutionary algorithm based on the bird fly. Differential evolution (DE) is a vector population based stochastic optimization method. The fact that both algorithms can handle efficiently arbitrary optimization problems has made them popular for solving problems in electromagnetics. In this paper, we apply a design technique based on a self-adaptive DE (SADE) algorithm to real-valued antenna and microwave design problems. These include linear-array synthesis, patch-antenna design and microstrip filter design. The number of unknowns for the design problems varies from 6 to 60. We compare the self-adaptive DE strategy with popular PSO and DE variants. We evaluate the algorithms' performance regarding statistical results and convergence speed. The results obtained for different problems show that the DE algorithms outperform the PSO variants in terms of finding best optima. Thus, our results show the advantages of the SADE strategy and the DE in general. However, these results are considered to be indicative and do not generally apply to all optimization problems in electromagnetics.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5705555
Pages (from-to)1286-1298
Number of pages13
JournalIEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume59
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2011

Keywords

  • Differential evolution (DE)
  • evolutionary algorithms (EAs)
  • linear array synthesis
  • microwave filter design
  • optimization methods
  • particle swarm optimization (PSO)
  • patch antenna design

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Self-adaptive differential evolution applied to real-valued antenna and microwave design problems'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this