eprintid: 453
rev_number: 6
eprint_status: archive
userid: 5
dir: disk0/00/00/04/53
datestamp: 2011-07-19
lastmod: 2013-07-01 09:18:25
status_changed: 2013-07-01 09:18:25
type: techreport
metadata_visibility: show
item_issues_count: 0
creators_name: Manica, Luca
creators_name: Rocca, Paolo
creators_name: Massa, Andrea
title: Synthesis of Sub-Arrayed Monopulse Planar Arrays by Means of an Innovative Excitation Matching Method
ispublished: pub
subjects: TU
full_text_status: public
keywords: monopulse antennas, planar arrays, sub-arraying, sum-difference pattern synthesis, excitation matching, contiguous partition.
note: This version is a pre-print of the final version available at IEEE.
abstract: Planar antenna arrays are widely used as transmitting and receiving part of monopulse trackers because of the need to generate sum and difference radiation modes to estimate the angular location of an unknown target. In such a framework, this paper presents an innovative synthesis technique able to synthesize two orthogonal sub-arrayed difference patterns close to an optimal reference one. The proposed numerical results assess the effectiveness of the proposed approach also dealing with large arrays.
date: 2011-01
date_type: published
institution: University of Trento
department: informaticat
refereed: FALSE
referencetext: [1] M. I. Skolnik, RADAR Handbook. McGraw-Hill, 1990. [2] P. W. Hannan, "Optimum feeds for all three modes of a monopulse antenna I: theory," Trans. IRE Antennas Propagat., vol. 9, pp. 444-454, May 1961. [3] T. T. Taylor, "Design of circular apertures for narrow beamwidth and low sidelobes," Trans. IRE Antennas Propagat., vol. 8, pp. 17-22, Jan. 1960. [4] E. T. Bayliss, "Design of monopulse antenna difference patterns with low sidelobes," Bell System Tech. Journal, vol. 47, pp. 623-640, 1968. [5] D. A. McNamara, “Synthesis of sub-arrayed monopulse linear arrays through matching of independently optimum sum and difference excitations," IEE Proc. H, vol. 135, pp. 371-374, May 1988. [6] P. Lopez, J. A. Rodriguez, F. Ares, and E. Moreno, “Subarray weighting for difference patterns of monopulse antennas: joint optimization of subarray configuration and weights," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 49, pp. 1606-1608, Nov. 2001. [7] S. Caorsi, A. Massa, M. Pastorino, and A. Randazzo, “Optimization of the difference patterns for monopulse antennas by an hybrid real/integer-coded differential evolution method," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 53, pp. 372-376, Jan. 2005. [8] F. Ares, S. R. Rengarajan, J. A. Rodriguez, and E. Moreno, "Optimal compromise among sum and difference patterns through sub-arraying," in Proc. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium 1996, Baltimore, Maryland USA, July 21-26. 1996, pp. 1142-1145. [9] M. D’Urso, T. Isernia, and E. F. Meliado’, “An effective hybrid approach for the optimal synthesis of monopulse anten-nas,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 55, pp. 1059-1066, Apr.. 2007. [10] P. Rocca, L. Manica and A. Massa, "Synthesis of monopulse antenna through iterative contiguous partition method," Electron. Lett., vol. 43, pp. 854-856, Aug. 2007. [11] L. Manica, P. Rocca, A. Martini, and A. Massa, “An innovative approach based on a tree-searching algorithm for the optimal matching of independently optimum sum and difference excitations,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 56, pp. 58-66, Jan. 2008. [12] R. E. Hodges and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "On sampling continuous aperture distributions for discrete planar arrays," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 44, pp. 1499-1508, Nov. 1996. [13] W. D. Fisher. "On grouping for maximum homogeneity," American Statistical Journal, pp. 789-798, 1958.
citation:   Manica, Luca and Rocca, Paolo and Massa, Andrea  (2011) Synthesis of Sub-Arrayed Monopulse Planar Arrays by Means of an Innovative Excitation Matching Method.  [Technical Report]     
document_url: http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/453/1/DISI-11-216.C149.pdf