Abstract
This paper presents a quasi-optimal and efficient method for designing the shape of electromagnetic (EM) scatterers. Optimizing the EM scatterer shape to achieve satisfactory scattering properties is a crucial, yet challenging problem due to the complex geometry involved and the high non-linearity in the optimization. In this paper, the geometric complexity is to be handled by modeling EM scatterer shapes as non-uniform rational basis spline (NURBS) surfaces, which enables an easy and intuitive shape control. Using the surfaces’ control points as optimization variables, the shape optimization problem is to be solved with the heuristic optimization strategy, which can effectively handle non-linearity and the associated local optima. Specifically, the recently developed grey wolf optimizer (GWO) is employed. Although GWO can effectively avoid local optima and achieve quasi-optimal results, it requires repeated calls to time-consuming EM simulations. To solve this efficiency issue, a filter-enhanced version of GWO is proposed to reduce the times of calling EM simulations, and an efficient, adaptive remeshing method is proposed to accelerate the numerical analysis process within each EM simulation call. Altogether, they lead to a quasi-optimal and efficient method for optimizing EM scatterers. Its effectiveness has also been validated by several examples.
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