Frequency Domain Inverse Profiling of Buried Dielectric Elliptical-Cylindrical Objects Using Evolutionary Programming

An efficient method based on the evolutionary programming (EP) technique is proposed for inverse profiling of 2-D buried dielectric objects with elliptical cross sections. In particular, EP with Cauchy mutation operator (EP-CMO), as its first reported implementation to inverse problems, is utilized as a stochastic optimization tool for quantitatively reconstructing buried objects. Moreover, the method of moments technique in conjunction with conjugate gradient-fast Fourier transform method is used, as a fast and simple frequency domain forward solver, in each iteration of the proposed method. Numerical results for different case studies are presented and analyzed. To assess the proposed EP-CMO method, the results are also compared statistically with that of three other well-known optimization techniques, namely, EP with Gaussian mutation, particle swarm optimization, and genetic algorithms. The results reveal that EP-CMO is a significantly more robust and efficient optimization tool in reconstruction of this class of buried objects.