Optimising efficiency and gain of small meander line RFID antennas using ant colony system

Andrew Lewis*, Gerhard Weis, Marcus Randall, Amir Galehdar, David V. Thiel

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Abstract

Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology is increasingly being used to uniquely identify objects. An important component of RFID systems is the design of the antenna - which usually takes the form of a compacted meander line. This task becomes an optimisation problem as different designs will have different efficiencies and resonant frequencies. In this paper, we explore the use of a multi-objective version of ant colony system. This constructive meta-heuristic, as shown, is highly suitable for this problem.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009
Pages1486-1492
Number of pages7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Event2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009 - Trondheim, Norway
Duration: 18 May 200921 May 2009

Conference

Conference2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009
Country/TerritoryNorway
CityTrondheim
Period18/05/0921/05/09

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