EFFICIENT MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF FREQUENCY SELECTIVE RADOME WITH NONUNIFORM WALL THICKNESS

Abstract

An e-cient optimization technique for frequency selective surface (FSS) radome with nonuniform wall thickness is proposed to improve the power transmission e-ciency and the boresight error (BSE) of FSS radome simultaneously. The high-frequency method based on the approximate locally planar technique is used to evaluate the transmission performance of FSS radome. An e-cient multi-dimensional adaptive sampling method combined with spectral domain method of moment (MoM) is employed to analyze transmission performance of FSS structure. The immune clone algorithm (ICA) is applied to the design of a FSS radome, in which the linear combination of the maximizing power transmission e-ciency and the minimizing BSE is adopted as the a-nity function, and the radome wall thickness is optimized. A design example for the three-dimensional tangent ogive radome with nonuniform thickness is given. The results show that the power transmission e-ciency is improved signiflcantly and the BSE of the optimal antenna-radome system is also reduced over the antenna scan volume.