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creators_name: Rocca, Paolo
creators_name: Manica, Luca
creators_name: Azaro, Renzo
creators_name: Massa, Andrea
title: A Hybrid Approach to the Synthesis of Sub-Arrayed Monopulse Linear Arrays
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subjects: TU
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keywords: Sum and difference patterns synthesis, contiguos partition, convex programming, hybrid optimization
abstract: In this paper, a hybrid approach for the synthesis of the ldquooptimalrdquo compromise between sum and difference patterns for subarrayed monopulse antennas is presented. First, the subarray configuration is determined by exploiting the knowledge of the optimum difference mode coefficients to reduce the dimension of the searching space. In the second step, the subarray weights are computed by means of a convex programming procedure, which takes advantages from the convexity, for a fixed clustering, of the problem at hand. A set of representative results is reported to assess the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Comparisons with state-of-the-art techniques are also presented. (c) 2009 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works.
date: 2011-01
date_type: published
institution: University of Trento
department: informaticat
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Rocca, Paolo and Manica, Luca and Azaro, Renzo and Massa, Andrea  (2011) A Hybrid Approach to the Synthesis of Sub-Arrayed Monopulse Linear Arrays.  [Technical Report]     
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