Adaptive simulated annealing for the optimal design of electromagnetic devices

Author

Youhua, Wang ; Weili, Yan ; Guansheng, Zhang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Hebei Univ. of Technol., Tianjin, China

Volume

32

Issue

3

fYear

1996

fDate

5/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1214

Lastpage

1217

Abstract

From the application of simulated annealing to the optimal design of electromagnetic devices, it is usually found that its convergence speed is low. Based on the analysis for the iterative procedure of simulated annealing, adaptive simulated annealing is put forward, which has a higher convergence speed. When used to solve the optimization problem that arises from the optimal design of a 6 kV fuse-contactor and involves a multimodal objective function, adaptive simulated annealing can not only obtain the global optimal solution but also save 30 percent of the computation time taken by simulated annealing

Keywords

computational complexity; contactors; convergence of numerical methods; electric fuses; electromagnetic devices; iterative methods; simulated annealing; 6 kV; adaptive simulated annealing; computation time; convergence speed; electromagnetic devices; fuse-contactor; global optimal solution; iterative procedure; multimodal objective function; optimal design; optimization problem solution; Analytical models; Computational electromagnetics; Computational modeling; Convergence; Design optimization; Electromagnetic devices; Material properties; Minimization methods; Optimization methods; Simulated annealing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/20.497462

Filename

497462