Efficiency-constrained particle swarm optimization of a modified Bernstein polynomial for conformal array excitation amplitude synthesis

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 8 II, 2005, Pages 2662-2673

  Boeringer, Daniel W ^a,b   Werner, Douglas H ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Antenna radiation patterns; Conformal antennas; Optimization methods

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA LOBES; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS;

AMPLITUDE DISTRIBUTION; APERTURE EFFICIENCY; BERNSTEIN POLYNOMIAL; CONFORMAL ANTENNAS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; TAYLOR WEIGHTS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 27644471596     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.851783     Document Type: Review

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