Optimization of the difference patterns for monopulse antennas by a hybrid real/integer-coded differential evolution method

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 1 II, 2005, Pages 372-376

  Caorsi, Salvatore ^a   Massa, Andrea ^b   Pastorino, Matteo ^c   Randazzo, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Array antennas; Evolutionary algorithm; Monopulse antennas; Sum and difference patterns

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA LOBES; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION;

DIFFERENCE PATTERNS; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION METHOD; MONOPULSE ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 13244279553     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.838788     Document Type: Article

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