Topology Optimization of Magnetic Actuator Using the Improved ON/OFF Method

Author

Zhao Fei ; Yan Rongge

Author_Institution

Province-Minist. Joint Key Lab. of Electromagn. Field & Electr. Apparatus Reliability, Hebei Univ. of Technol., Tianjin, China

fYear

2012

fDate

19-21 June 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A topology optimization technique called ON/OFF method has been applied to optimization of magnetic structures, because it can obtain a new one that we could not image beforehand. In this paper, ON/OFF method is improved by cell sensitivity redistribution method and mutation theory of the genetic algorithms (GA) to overcome the grid discontinuous phenomenon and improve the objective function value extremely. The topology optimization of 2-D magnetic actuator is performed by using the improved ON/OFF method, and the results verifies the validity of the improved method. This indicates that the proposed improved ON/OFF method can be used in the design and optimization of electromagnetic devices such as motors, transformers and so on.

Keywords

electromagnetic devices; genetic algorithms; magnetic actuators; magnetic structure; on-off control; topology; 2D magnetic actuator; GA; cell sensitivity redistribution method; electromagnetic device optimization; genetic algorithms; improved on-off method; magnetic structures optimization; mutation theory; objective function value; topology optimization; Actuators; Finite element methods; Magnetic noise; Magnetic shielding; Optimization; Sensitivity; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetic Field Problems and Applications (ICEF), 2012 Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian, Liaoning

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1333-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEF.2012.6310306

Filename

6310306