Microstrip Coupler Design Using Bat Algorithm
This addresses a domain-specific problem in microwave engineering, but it is incremental as it applies an existing algorithm to a new application area.
The paper tackled the design of microwave microstrip couplers by applying the bat algorithm, a newly proposed hybrid method, for the first time, resulting in very fast and reliable performance as indicated by simulation results.
Evolutionary and swarm algorithms have found many applications in design problems since todays computing power enables these algorithms to find solutions to complicated design problems very fast. Newly proposed hybrid algorithm, bat algorithm, has been applied for the design of microwave microstrip couplers for the first time. Simulation results indicate that the bat algorithm is a very fast algorithm and it produces very reliable results.