Electromagnetic inverse scattering of multiple two-dimensional perfectly conducting objects by the differential evolution strategy

Electromagnetic inverse scattering of multiple two-dimensional (2-D) perfectly conducting objects with transverse magnetic (TM) wave incidence by the differential evolution strategy (DES) is presented. The governing electric field integral equations for the scattering problem are expressed as surface integral over the cylinder contours. The cylinder contours are approximately represented by closed cubic B-splines local shape functions in local polar coordinate system. The inverse problem is to locate the cylinders and to reconstruct their shape with or without a priori knowledge of the number of cylinders. It is cast into an optimization problem and is solved using the DES. Both synthetic and real reconstructions are carried out. The reconstruction results agree with the true profiles very well. Comparison with the real-coded genetic algorithm has been carried out. It has been observed that the DES outperforms the real-coded genetic algorithm.

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