Application of Conditional Variational Auto-Encoder to Magnetic Circuit Design with Magnetic Field Computation

Abstract

In the design optimization of electric machine, we ordinarily derive the objective physical quantities, e.g., the shape of the investigated model as design variables, by using numerical method such as the finite element method with the analysis conditions. In recent years, the representation learning using Deep Learning much attracts attention because it can acquire the features of data as a distributed representation and reproduce corresponding data. In this paper, utilizing machine learning technology, we propose an application of Conditional Variational Auto-Encoder (CVAE) to reproduce the more adequate shape of magnetic materials, i.e., design variables, corresponding to the intended magnetic energy, i.e., objective function values.