Affiliations: [a] Department of Electrical Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China | [b] College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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Corresponding author: Shiyou Yang, College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China. E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: Metamaterial is an artificial material with unique material properties that cannot be found in a naturally existing one, and hence it is able to perform functions that a conventional material cannot do. Consequently, it has shown great potential in various engineering applications such as resonance coupled mid-range wireless power transmission (R-WPT) systems. However, the analysis and design of an application-oriented metamaterial include both the unit cells and their combinations, and thus are very complex. Moreover, the performance of a metamaterial is very sensitive to uncertainties in both manufacturing and operating conditions. In this regard, a two-phase methodology for robust design optimizations of metamaterial slabs in R-WPT applications is proposed and applied to the design optimization of a prototype R-WPT system with promising results.
Keywords: Metamaterial, robust optimization, response surface model
