Design of non-uniform circular antenna arrays using a modified invasive weed optimization algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 110-118

  Roy, Gourab Ghosh ^a   Das, Swagatam ^a   Chakraborty, Prithwish ^a   Suganthan, Ponnuthurai N ^b  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Circular antenna arrays; differential evolution (DE); genetic algorithms (GAs); invasive weed optimization (IWO); particle swarm optimization (PSO); real parameter optimization; sidelobe suppression

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; INVASIVE WEED OPTIMIZATION; REAL-PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; SIDE-LOBE SUPPRESSION;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BIOLOGY; DESIGN; ECOLOGY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 78651322130     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2090477     Document Type: Article

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