Multi-objective optimum design of SAW filters using differential evolution

The structural design of Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) filters is formulated as a constrained multi-objective optimization problem. Then three Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimization (EMO) algorithms based on Differential Evolution (DE), namely, Multi-Objective DE (MODE), Non-dominated Sorting DE (NSDE), and Generalized DE 3 (GDE3), are applied to the three- and two-objective optimization problems of a balanced SAW filter. In order to compare the performances of the above EMO algorithms, several criteria including hypervolume are evaluated. As a result, it is shown that the performance of the EMO algorithm depends on the number of objective functions. Besides, in order to clarify the tradeoff relationship among the objective functions of the three-objective optimization problem, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is employed. © 2010 The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan.