A Software-Defined Intelligent Method for Antenna Design

The personalized and diverse demands of modern communication present new challenges to antenna design. While the emergence of Software-Defined Everything provides an innovative hardware design idea that hardware structure is modeled in a software way and designed with intelligence optimization algorithms. Inspired by the design idea, in this paper we propose a software-defined intelligent method for antenna design. The optimal variables are described with the software-defined antenna structure method, and the optimal target is determined with the software-defined antenna performance method. Based on the above the software-defined antenna model will be abstracted, which convert the work of antenna design to the optimal problem on antenna structure. Meanwhile considering the features of the long simulation and the intensive computation, an intelligent algorithm is proposed suitable for the intelligent design method. This software-defined intelligent method is applied to an antenna design example and several optimal antennas satisfying the requirements have been obtained. It demonstrates that automation and intelligentization in antenna design can be achieved with this innovative method.