TY - GEN
T1 - Nature-inspired techniques for the synthesis of aperiodic ultra-wideband phased arrays
AU - Gregory, Micah Dennis
AU - Werner, Douglas Henry
AU - Werner, Pingjuan Li
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Over the past few decades, much research has been invested in the exploration of wideband and ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna arrays. The goals of such array designs are to determine the best element arrangements that yield radiation patterns possessing the highest degrees of sidelobe suppression and no grating lobes over the largest possible operating bandwidths. It has been recently shown that nature-inspired array design methodologies can provide solutions that exhibit these ultra-wideband characteristics. An overview of several new array design techniques is given here; linear polyfractal arrays, linear raised-power series (RPS) arrays, compact linear UWB design, and planar arrays of aperiodic tilings. Robust nature-inspired genetic algorithm optimization techniques and other evolutionary strategies were utilized in the design of these types of arrays in order to obtain the best possible UWB performance.
AB - Over the past few decades, much research has been invested in the exploration of wideband and ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna arrays. The goals of such array designs are to determine the best element arrangements that yield radiation patterns possessing the highest degrees of sidelobe suppression and no grating lobes over the largest possible operating bandwidths. It has been recently shown that nature-inspired array design methodologies can provide solutions that exhibit these ultra-wideband characteristics. An overview of several new array design techniques is given here; linear polyfractal arrays, linear raised-power series (RPS) arrays, compact linear UWB design, and planar arrays of aperiodic tilings. Robust nature-inspired genetic algorithm optimization techniques and other evolutionary strategies were utilized in the design of these types of arrays in order to obtain the best possible UWB performance.
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U2 - 10.1109/ARRAY.2010.5613288
DO - 10.1109/ARRAY.2010.5613288
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78649281078
SN - 9781424451272
T3 - IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology
SP - 707
EP - 712
BT - 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology, Array 2010
T2 - 4th IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology, Array 2010
Y2 - 12 October 2010 through 15 October 2010
ER -