The application of a modified differential evolution strategy to some array pattern synthesis problems

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1919-1927

  Chen, Yikai ^a   Yang, Shiwen ^a   Nie, Zaiping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Differential evolution (DE); Pattern synthesis

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION;

ARRAY PATTERN SYNTHESIS; ARRAY SYNTHESIS; CONVERGENCE RATES; DIFFERENCE PATTERNS; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION STRATEGY (DES); EXPLORATION ABILITY; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONS; MODERN HEURISTIC; MODIFIED DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; NON-CONVEX PROBLEMS; NUMERICA L RESULTS; OPTIMAL SYNTHESIS; OPTIMIZATION METHODS; ROBUST EXPLORATION; UNEQUALLY SPACED ARRAYS;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 47249092832     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.924713     Document Type: Article

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