Surrogate-Assisted Multistate Tuning-Driven EM Optimization for Microwave Tunable Filter

Abstract

This article proposes a novel surrogate-assisted multistate tuning-driven electromagnetic (EM) optimization technique to address the challenges of microwave tunable filter design with multiple tuning states. The desired multiple tuning states are satisfied simultaneously using the proposed surrogate-assisted technique. The proposed surrogate model is composed of several subsurrogate models. Each subsurrogate model is developed to perform the optimization for each tuning state. The subsurrogate models share the same values of nontunable parameters and possess different values of tunable parameters. The overall surrogate model is developed to find a single set of optimal solutions for nontunable parameters and multiple sets of optimal solutions for tuning parameters simultaneously. Parallel computation scheme is exploited to generate the training samples for establishing the proposed surrogate model. Furthermore, a new trust-region updating formulation specifically for multistate tuning is proposed to improve the convergence of the proposed optimization algorithm. Using the proposed optimization technique, different tuning states are considered together and optimized simultaneously. The values of nontunable design parameters are constrained by all tuning states and consequently there is a higher chance that more suitable solutions can be found to satisfy all the desired tuning states simultaneously. The proposed technique for the tunable filter design with multiple tuning states has a better capability of avoiding local minima and can reach the optimal solution more effectively in comparison with the existing optimization method. Two microwave examples are used to validate the proposed technique.