Title :
Optimal design of microelectromechanical systems via reversed polynomial programming
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., CA
Abstract :
In this paper we describe an optimal design method for micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). We observe that many MEMS device designs with a variety of design objects and constraints can be reformulated as reversed polynomial programs, which can be globally solved by, e.g., branch-and-bound methods; in consequence the optimal MEMS design can be obtained directly from specifications. In this paper, design optimization of a crab-leg resonator is formulated as a reversed polynomial program
Keywords :
design engineering; micromechanical devices; tree searching; branch-and-bound methods; crab-leg resonator; microelectromechanical systems; optimal MEMS design; reversed polynomial programming; reversed polynomial programs; Constraint optimization; Design methodology; Design optimization; Integrated optics; Leg; Microelectromechanical devices; Microelectromechanical systems; Micromechanical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical resonators;
Conference_Titel :
System Theory, 2006. SSST '06. Proceeding of the Thirty-Eighth Southeastern Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Cookeville, TN
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9457-7
DOI :
10.1109/SSST.2006.1619052
