Design of c slotted microstrip antenna using artificial neural network model

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DESIGN OF C-SLOTTED MICROSTRIP ANTENNA USING
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODEL
Pritam Singha Roy1
, Samik Chakraborty2
1
Assistant Professor, Electronics Engineering, DIET, West Bengal, India
e-mail:prittam.pritam@gmail.com
2
Professor, Communication Engineering, Indian Maritime University, West Bengal, India
e-mail:chakra_samik@yahoo.com
Abstract
In this paper, neural network model has been used to estimation of resonance frequency of a coaxial feed C-slotted Microstrip
Antenna. The Multi-Layer Perceptron Feed forward back Propagation (MLPFFBP) and Radial basis function Artificial Neural
Network (RBFANN) have been used to implement the neural network model. A relative performance analysis of the proposed
neural network for different training algorithms. Number of neurons and number of hidden layer is also carried out for estimating
the resonance frequency. The method of moment (MOM) based IE3D software was used to generate data dictionary for training
and validation set of ANN. The results obtain using ANN are compared with simulation feeding and found quite satisfactory and
also it is concluded that RBFANN network is more accurate and fast compared to MLPFFBP network algorithm.
Index Terms: Artificial Neural Network, C slot, Microstrip Antenna, Multilayer Feed Forward Networks, Radial basis
function Artificial Neural Network, Resonance frequency.
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1. INTRODUCTION
Microstrip antennas due to their many attractive features
have drawn attention of industries for an ultimate solution for
wireless communication. The existing era of wireless
communication has led to the design of an efficient, wide
band, low cost and small volume antennas which can readily
be incorporated into a broad spectrum of systems [1,
2].sufficient amount of work [3-10] indicates how ANN have
been used efficiently to design rectangular Microstrip
antenna for the determination of different patch dimensions
i,e length,width,resonant frequency, radiation efficiency etc.
In this paper, an attempt has been made to exploit the
capability of artificial neural networks to calculate the
resonating frequency of coaxial feed C-slotted Microstrip
patch antenna. The trained ANN is used to determine
different important antenna characteristics for various
structural input variables.Neoro models are computationally
much more efficient than EM models once they are trained
with reliable learning data obtained from a “fine” model by
either EM simulation or measurement [3, 4, 5, 6].The neuro
models can be used for efficient and accurate optimization
and design within the range of training.
In this work, the authors extend the work on the use of the
artificial neural network (ANN) technique taking into
account different variants of back propagation training
algorithm with MLPFFBP and RBF ANN model are stressed
upon in place of conventional numerical techniques for the
C-slot microstrip antenna design. Then, with the ANN
results, simulated results from the IE3D software are
compared.
2. DESIGN AND DATA GENERATION
Designing of micro strip patch antenna depends on three
parameters. In this paper The rectangular patch Microstrip
antenna is designed to resonate at 6.8 GHz frequency with
dielectric constant 2.2,Substrate thickness h = 1.5mm
,L=16.01mm and W=19.73mm. The width (W) and length
(L) of antenna are calculated from conventional equations
[11].
For generating data, we simulated the frequency domain
response of the antenna for various patch dimensions, using
method of moments based simulation software IE3DTM
.For
training and testing of the ANN, 100 data sets are generated

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by simulation using IE3DTM
simulation software. Four
Antenna dimension as L1 is the horizontal slot length, W1 is
Figure.1 .C-slotted Microstrip Patch antenna
the vertical slot length,W2 and W3 are the upper and lower
vertical patch length respectively. Figure1. shows the layout
of a coaxial probe-fed C-slotted patch antenna.
The four dimensions L1,W1,W2 and W3 are varied from 0.1
to 3 mm and we have taken corresponding simulated
resonance frequencies. The feed position is varied in very
close steps varying around one sixth of the length (from
microstrip centre) within 1.5mm along the length. These
sampled points are then scaled to remain within the range
[-1, 1] and used as the training data for the network.
3. NETWORK ARCHITECHTURE AND
TRAINING
For the present work the Multi-Layer Perceptron Feed
forward back Propagation neural network [12, 13] and
Radial basis function Artificial Neural Network models are
used. These networks can be used as a general function
approximator.It can be approximate any function with a
finite number of discontinuous, arbitrary well given
sufficient neurons in the hidden layer. The model is trained
with 100 sets of input/output data, which are obtained by
IE3D software based on MoM. The model is trained for
different values of parameters (L1,W1,W2 and W3 )to get a
desired frequency.
3.1 Multi-Layer Perceptron Feed forward Back Propagation
(MLPFFBP) Neural Network.
MLP networks are feed forward networks trained with the
standard back propagation algorithms to achieve the
required degree of accuracy.
They are supervised networks, and also they required a
desired response to be trained. With one or two hidden
layers they can approximate virtually any input output map.
Figure 2. Three layer MLPFFBP network architecture
The weights of the networks are computed by training the
network using back propagation algorithm [14, 15].In
present work, the MLPFFBP (Levenberg-Marquardt)
architecture shown in Figure 2.
In this network there are four input neurons in the input
layer, 25 hidden neurons in the hidden layer and one output
neuron in the output layer. The training time is 26 seconds
and training performs in 250 epochs. In order to evaluate the
performance of proposed MLPFFBP-ANN based model for
the design of microstrip antenna, simulation results are
obtained using IE3D simulator and generated 82 input –
output training patterns and 18 inputs-outputs test patterns to
validate the model. During the training process the neural
network automatically adjusts its weights and threshold
values such that the error between predicted and sampled
outputs is minimized. The adjustments are computed by the
back propagation algorithm. The training algorithm most
suitable is trainlm.The error goal is 0.001.The transfer
function is tansig in the architecture.
Figure 3. Number of epochs to achieve minimum mean
square error level in case of MLPFFBP training algorithm

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In Table I resonant frequencies obtained using IE3D
software and using MLPFFBP algorithm for different test
patterns are compared and Mean square error has been
calculated in Table I.
Table I: Comparison of results obtained using IE3D software
and MLPFFBP –ANN algorithm
Figure 3.shows the training performance of the developed
neural model for proposed antenna using MLPFFBP
algorithm. Model is trained in 250 epochs and the training
time was 26 seconds.
3.2 Radial basis function Artificial Neural Network
Radial basis function network [16, 17] is a feed forward
neural network with a single hidden layer that use radial
basis activation functions for hidden neurons.RBF networks
are applied for various microwave modeling purpose. The
RBF neural network has both a supervised and unsupervised
component to its learning. It consists of three layers of
neurons-input, hidden and output. The hidden layer neuron
represents a series of centers in the data space. Each of these
centers has an activation function, typically Gaussian. The
activation depends on the distance between the presented
input vector and the centre. The farther the vector is from
the centre, the lower is the activation and vice versa
[12].The generation of the centre and their widths is done
using an unsupervised k-means clustering algorithm. The
centre and widths created by this algorithm then form the
weights and biases of the hidden layer, which remain
unchanged once the clustering has been done.
The typical RBF network structure is given in Figure 4
Figure 4: RBF-NN Basic Structure
The parameters ci and εi are centre and standard deviations
of radial basis activation functions. Commonly used radial
basis activation functions are Gaussian and Multidquadratic.
Given the input x, the total input to the ith hidden neuron γi
is given by –
Where N is the number of hidden neurons. The output value
of the ith hidden neuron is Zi = σ (γi) ,where σ (γi) is a
radial basis function. Finally, the output of the RBF network
are computed from hidden neuron is given by-
Where wi is the weight of the link between the ith neuron of
the hidden layer and kth neuron of the output layer.
In RBF network, the spread value was chosen as 0.01,
which gives the best accuracy. The network was trained
with 82 samples and tested with 18 samples. In the structure
there is one input and one output was used for the analysis
ANN.
Figure 5. Number of epochs to achieve minimum mean
square error level in case of RBF network.

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The RBF network automatically adjusts the number of
processing elements in the hidden layer till the defined
accuracy is reached. The training algorithm is unsupervised
k-means clustering algorithm.
Figure 5. shows the training performance of the developed
neural model using RBF Network. Model is trained 93
epochs.
It is clear that RBF network is much faster than feed forward
networks since RBF network is trained fewer epochs than
feed forward network
4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The antenna fabricated for validation of ANN are simulated
using IE3D simulation software for comparison and
validation purpose of ANN, because the specification of
these antennas are not included in the training data base. The
results of IE3D simulation software and MLPFFBP
(Levenberg-Marquardt) training algorithm is shown in
Figure 6.
It has been established from Figure 3.that the MLPFFBP
training algorithm is the optimal model to achieve desirable
values of speed of convergence. It has been observed that
250 epochs are needed to reduce MSE level to a low value
1.01575e-005 for three layers MLPFFBP with transig as a
transfer function. Achievement of such a low value of
performance goal (MSE) and accuracy of 99.89% indicates
that ANN model is an accurate model for designing the
Microstrip patch antenna. It is observed that tansig is most
suitable transfer function for present work. Minimum MSE
is calculated after training the network and indicated in
Table I
As the work signifies RBF-ANN is also used to model the
Microstrip patch antenna. A Radial Basis Function neural
network has an input layer, a hidden layer and an output
layer. The neurons in the hidden layer contain Gaussian
transfer function whose outputs are inversely proportional to
the distance from the centre of the neuron. It is established
from Figure 5. That RBF is giving results not only more
accurate but fast also, the presented RBF network has
performed training in less epochs than MLPFFBP.So it is
concluded that RBF architecture is better from MLPFFBP to
the accuracy of 99.97% and quite faster comparatively.
CONCLUSIONS
Artificial neural network structure is used for analysis of
C-slotted Microstrip patch antenna characteristics.
Multilayer Perceptron trained in the backpropagation mode
(using Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm) and Radial basis
Function Network model are developed. The important
characteristics namely, resonance frequencies obtained with
the present techniques are closer to the experimental results
generated by simulating a large no. of C-slotted microstrip
patch antenna using IE3Dsoftware.The comprehensive
comparison found that RBF network is better than
MLPFFBP network in prediction accuracy, training time
and training speed. It proved that the RBF neural network is
more efficient and accurate than MLPFFBP neural network.
The developed neural network methodology can be
extended for characterizing other different shapes of
Microstrip antenna.
Figure 6. Comparison of frequency of antenna obtained using
IE3D simulation software and Trained with MLPFFBP.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Mr. Pritam Singha Roy ,Assistant
Professor in DIET and got M.Tech
degree in Electronics and Control
Engineering,Calcutta University,India,
in 2009. His current areas of interest
are design and development of
microstrip ,dielectric and metallic
antennas.
Dr. samik Chakraborty ,Professor at
Indian Maritime University,India..He
received Ph.D(Science) in 2009 ,from
Jadavpur University,Kolkata ,India.He
is currently supervising two doctoral
thesis.He has worked in different
research projects for National Defence
and Space Research Organizations

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