Comparison of different heuristic optimization methods for near-field antenna measurements

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 3 I, 2007, Pages 549-555

  Pérez, Jesús Ramón ^a   Basterrechea, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms (GAs); Near field to far field (NF FF) transformation; Particle swarm optimization (PSO); Simulated annealing (SA)

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

ANTENNA FAR-FIELD RADIATION PATTERN RECONSTRUCTION; BINARY ENCODING; HEURISTIC OPTIMIZATION METHODS; NEAR-FIELD TO FAR-FIELD (NF-FF) TRANSFORMATION; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 34047203560     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.891508     Document Type: Article

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