Considerations of uncertainty in robust optimisation of electromagnetic devices

Due to unavoidable uncertainties related to material properties and manufacturing processes, the robustness of the optimal solution must be considered when designing electromagnetic devices. In this paper, the worst-case optimisation (WCO) and the worst-vertex-based WCO are proposed to evaluate the robustness of both performance and constraints under uncertainty. To reduce computing times when searching for the robust solution a predicted objective function is used, obtained with the help of a kriging algorithm which explores the searching space using the concept of rewards. Finally, to avoid some of the shortcomings of WCO, the concept of average performance evaluation is developed.

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