Light pollution is an environmental stressor of global extent that is growing exponentially in area and intensity. Artificial skyglow, a form of light pollution with large range, is hypothesized to have environmental impact at ecosystem level. However, testing the impact of skyglow at large scales and in a controlled fashion under in situ conditions has remained elusive so far. Here we present the first experimental setup to mimic...

In this study, the authors introduce a methodology for low-cost simulation-driven design optimisation of highly miniaturised branch-line couplers (BLCs). The first stage of their design approach exploits fast concurrent optimisation of geometrically dependent, but electromagnetically isolated cells that constitute a BLC. The cross-coupling effects between the cells are taken into account in the second stage, where a surrogate-assisted...

Re-design of microwave passive components for the assumed operating frequencies or substrate parameters is an important yet a tedious process. It requires simultaneous tuning of relevant circuit variables, often over broad ranges thereof, to ensure satisfactory performance of the system. If the operating conditions at the available design are distant from the intended ones, local optimization is typically insufficient, whereas...

W artykule poddano dogłębnej analizie szereg inteligentnych technik miękkie-go modelowania pod katem ich przydatności w obszarze wspomagania procesówplanowania dla inżynierii współzadaniowej. Skoncentrowano się na wspomaganiujednego z najważniejszych obszarów inżynierii współzadaniowej, a mianowicieprocesu projektowania. W wyniku analizy zaproponowano architekturę wspomaga-nia opartą na tablicowej bazie wiedzy modelującej wnioskowanie...