Optimal steering of a paraboloid antenna using piezoelectric actuators

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-75

  Gupta, V K ^a   Seshu, P ^b   Kurien Issac, K ^b   Shevgaonkar, R K ^b  

^a Engineering College   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM QUALITY; CURVED BEAMS AND GIRDERS; DEFORMATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

OPTIMAL STEERING; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM; SHELL ELEMENTS;

PARABOLIC ANTENNAS;

EID: 33947680802     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/16/1/007     Document Type: Article

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