Synthesizing antenna array sidelobe levels and null placements using the Cross Entropy method

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1937-1941

  Connor, Jeffrey D ^a   Foo, Simon Y ^a   Weatherspoon, Mark H ^a  

^a FAMU FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ENTROPY; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

ANGULAR LOCATIONS; ARRAY RESPONSE; BEST ESTIMATES; CROSS ENTROPIES; CROSS-ENTROPY METHODS; EXTREMAL OPTIMIZATIONS; KULLBACK-LEIBLER DIVERGENCES; LINEAR ANTENNA ARRAYS; MULTI OBJECTIVES; OPTIMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; OPTIMAL SAMPLINGS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PARTICLE SWARMS; PEAK SIDELOBE LEVELS; SIDE LOBE LEVELS;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 63149090427     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2008.4758252     Document Type: Conference Paper

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