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creators_name: Manica, Luca
creators_name: Rocca, Paolo
creators_name: Oliveri, Giacomo
creators_name: Massa, Andrea
title: Synthesis of Multi-Beam Sub-Arrayed Antennas Through an Excitation Matching Strategy
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subjects: TU
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keywords: Linear arrays, multi-beam antennas, sub-arraying
abstract: An innovative synthesis procedure to design sub-arrayed antennas affording multiple patterns is presented in this paper. The approach is based on an excitation matching procedure aimed at generating one optimal pattern and multiple compromises close as much as possible to user-defined reference beams. A suitable modification of the K-means clustering algorithm integrated into a customized version of the contiguous partition method is used to efficiently sample the solution space looking for the best compromise excitations. A set of representative numerical results is reported to give some indications on the reliability, potentialities, and limitations of the proposed approach. “(c) 2011 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:   Manica, Luca and Rocca, Paolo and Oliveri, Giacomo and Massa, Andrea  (2011) Synthesis of Multi-Beam Sub-Arrayed Antennas Through an Excitation Matching Strategy.  [Technical Report]     
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