Machine Learning and Additive Manufacturing Based Antenna Design Techniques
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description: This dissertation investigates the application of machine learning (ML) techniques to additive manufacturing (AM) technology with the ultimate goal of tackling the universal antenna design challenges and achieving automated antenna design for a broad range of applications. First, we investigate the implementation and accuracy of few modern machine learning techniques including, least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (lasso), artificial neural networks (ANN) and k-nearest neighbor (kNN) methods, for antenna design optimization for antennas. The automated techniques provide an efficient, flexible, and reliable framework to identify optimal design parameters for a reference dual-band double T-shaped monopole antenna to achieve favorite performance in terms of its dual bandwidth. We first provide a brief background for these techniques and then explain how these techniques can be used to optimize the performance of the referenced antenna. Then the accuracy of these techniques is tested by doing a comparative analysis with HFSS simulations as well. After obtaining encouraging results from the primitive work mentioned above, we implement ML techniques for the optimization of a more complex 3D-printed slotted waveguide antenna. The design has more design parameters that are be tuned and, also multiple performance parameters, including bandwidth, realized gain, sidelobe level, and back lobe level, are optimized. This is a higher-dimensional and non-linear problem. Hence, we use an artificial neural network for this work. Next, we demonstrate the advantages and challenges of using ML techniques compared to heuristic optimization techniques. We apply ML techniques first for ‘modeling’ that refers to prediction of the performance curve (e.g., reflection coefficient w.r.t. frequency, gain plots in a given plane, etc.) for a given design of antenna with particular set of design parameters and then use it for obtaining ‘optimization’ results that refers to searching the …
abstract: This dissertation investigates the application of machine learning (ML) techniques to additive manufacturing (AM) technology with the ultimate goal of tackling the universal antenna design challenges and achieving automated antenna design for a broad range of applications. First, we investigate the implementation and accuracy of few modern machine learning techniques including, least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (lasso), artificial neural networks (ANN) and k-nearest neighbor (kNN) methods, for antenna design optimization for antennas. The automated techniques provide an efficient, flexible, and reliable framework to identify optimal design parameters for a reference dual-band double T-shaped monopole antenna to achieve favorite performance in terms of its dual bandwidth. We first provide a brief background for these techniques and then explain how these techniques can be used to optimize the performance of the referenced antenna. Then the accuracy of these techniques is tested by doing a comparative analysis with HFSS simulations as well. After obtaining encouraging results from the primitive work mentioned above, we implement ML techniques for the optimization of a more complex 3D-printed slotted waveguide antenna. The design has more design parameters that are be tuned and, also multiple performance parameters, including bandwidth, realized gain, sidelobe level, and back lobe level, are optimized. This is a higher-dimensional and non-linear problem. Hence, we use an artificial neural network for this work. Next, we demonstrate the advantages and challenges of using ML techniques compared to heuristic optimization techniques. We apply ML techniques first for ‘modeling’ that refers to prediction of the performance curve (e.g., reflection coefficient w.r.t. frequency, gain plots in a given plane, etc.) for a given design of antenna with particular set of design parameters and then use it for obtaining ‘optimization’ results that refers to searching the …
author: Sharma, Yashika
language: en
keywords: Antenna, Gaussian Process, lasso, Machine Learning, Optimization
date published: 2020
date modified: 2026-07-24T00:56:58Z
provider: University of Arizona
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: The University of Arizona.

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