Antenna design explorer: A GUI software tool for efficient antenna design optimization

Mobayode O. Akinsolu; Fathi M. Abdussalam; Omer Arabi; Bo Liu; Raed A. Abd-Alhameed; Nazar Ali; Godar Ibrahim; Tarik Rashid

Antenna design explorer: A GUI software tool for efficient antenna design optimization

Mobayode O. Akinsolu, Fathi M. Abdussalam, Omer Arabi, Bo Liu, Raed A. Abd-Alhameed, Nazar Ali, Godar Ibrahim, Tarik Rashid

Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

Due to stringent specifications, antennas for IoT devices are very complex to design. Thus, the need for antenna design exploration/optimization to achieve desired antenna performance in IoT applications. This paper presents a GUI software tool, called Antenna Design Explorer (ADE), for the design exploration/optimization of microwave antennas. Compared to available popular antenna design explorers, (e.g., CST Microwave Studio Optimizers, MATLAB optimizers), the advantages of ADE include: (1) 5-10 times efficiency improvement for full-wave EM simulation driven antenna optimization; (2) largely improved optimization capacity for high-performance antenna synthesis; (3) substantially improved usability considering the background of antenna engineers; and (4) general and no ad-hoc initial design is needed. Three real-world antenna design cases verify the above advantages.

Original language	British English
State	Published - 2017
Event	Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference, LAPC 2017 - Loughborough, United Kingdom Duration: 13 Nov 2017 → 14 Nov 2017

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Conference	Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference, LAPC 2017
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Loughborough
Period	13/11/17 → 14/11/17

Keywords

Antenna Design
Antenna Design Exploration
Efficient Antenna Optimization
IoT
Software Tool

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