An Optimization Method for Coil Design Problems Based on Physarum Polycephalum Algorithm and Evolutionary Computation

This paper presents a new optimization approach for coil design problems. To obtain a connected path, the coil design task is formulated as an optimum routing problem. In order to solve the routing problem, the physarum polycephalum algorithm is employed and it is combined with evolutionary computations. It is shown that the proposed method can find a coil design for the generation of target uniform magnetic distribution.