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This paper introduces a novel approach to the evolutionary design optimisation of an MEMS bandpass filter, incorporating areas of multi-disciplinary, multi-level and multi-objective design optimisation in the process. In order to demonstrate this approach a comparison is made to previous attempts to design similar bandpass filters, providing comparable results at a significant reduction in functional evaluations. In this endeavour, a circuit equivalent of the MEMS bandpass filter is evolved extrinsically using the SPICE Simulator.
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Farnsworth, M., Benkhelifa, E., Tiwari, A., Zhu, M. (2010). A Novel Approach to Multi-level Evolutionary Design Optimization of a MEMS Device. In: Tempesti, G., Tyrrell, A.M., Miller, J.F. (eds) Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware. ICES 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6274. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15323-5_28
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