Island biogeography as a paradigm for MEMS optimal design

Biogeography-inspired multiobjective optimization for helping MEMS synthesis

“…In computational electromagnetics, applications and also modifications of BBO are an emerging new field of research: various single-objective problems of optimal design have been successfully solved; moreover, attempts to transform BBO in a multi-objective optimisation algorithm have been considered [18,19,[22][23][24][25]. In particular, the concept of predatorprey has been implemented [25] for hunting the worst individuals per objective function and making the surviving individuals spread in the objective space in order to escape from the predator.…”

“…A previous version of the proposed BiMO was applied to the shape synthesis of an electrostatic micromotor [18,19]; in this paper, a wider study on the applicability and suitability of the BiMO for solving shape design problems of MEMS is carried out. In the authors opinion, in fact, it is useful to investigate new optimisation methods for MEMS synthesis because, as the no free lunch theorem states [20], there are general purpose algorithms which perform on average well, but dedicated algorithms could perform better on a specific class of problems.…”

“…The convergence of the proposed method was further investigated in [19], where the shape of the electrostatic micromotor was defined in a parameter-less way by means of the Bézier transform.…”

Field-based optimal-design of an electric motor: a new sensitivity formulation

“…multiphysics problems [6][7][8][9] or, in general, optimizations based on a forward problem the solution of which requires a FE simulation [10][11][12].…”

Optimization of wearable microwave antenna with simplified electromagnetic model of the human body

“…It is the task of e.g. engineers designing the sensors used for detecting high energy neutrino from the outer space [3] as well as the Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems designers [4]. This is also an important problem in the design of the wearable antennas that are operating in complex electromagnetic environment such as vicinity of the human body.…”