Design of Aperture Coupled Microstrip Antenna Using Radial Basis Function Networks

Tanushree Bose, Nisha Gupta

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DOI: 10.4236/wet.2010.12010                

Abstract

This paper, two Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models using radial basis function (RBF) nets are developed for the design of Aperture Coupled Microstrip Antennas (ACMSA) for different number of design parameters. The effect of increasing the number of design parameters on the ANN model is also discussed in this work. The performances of the models when compared are found that on decreasing the number of design parameters, accuracy of the model is in-creased. The results given by the prepared models are comparable with the results of the IE3D software. So, these models are accurate enough to measure the design parameters of ACMSAs. Thus the neural network approach elimi-nates the long time consuming process of finding various designing parameters using costly software packages.

Keywords

Artificial Neural Network, RBF Nets, ACMSA

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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