Title :
Optimising efficiency and gain of small meander line RFID antennas using ant colony system
Author :
Lewis, Andrew ; Weis, Gerhard ; Randall, Marcus ; Galehdar, Amir ; Thiel, David
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Integrated & Intell. Syst., Griffith Univ., Griffith, QLD
Abstract :
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology is increasingly being used to uniquely identify objects. An important component of RFID systems is the design of the antenna - which usually takes the form of a compacted meander line. This task becomes an optimisation problem as different designs will have different efficiencies and resonant frequencies. In this paper, we explore the use of a multi-objective version of ant colony system. This constructive meta-heuristic, as shown, is highly suitable for this problem.
Keywords :
antennas; optimisation; radiofrequency identification; ant colony system; antenna design; meander line RFID antenna; multiobjective optimisation; radio frequency identification; resonant frequency; Ant colony optimization; Antenna accessories; Antennas and propagation; Design engineering; Design optimization; Numerical models; RFID tags; Radiofrequency identification; Resonant frequency; Signal detection; RFID antenna design; ant colony system optimisation; muti-objective optimisation;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 2009. CEC '09. IEEE Congress on
Conference_Location :
Trondheim
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2958-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2959-2
DOI :
10.1109/CEC.2009.4983118
