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creators_name: Massa, Andrea
creators_name: Pastorino, Matteo
creators_name: Randazzo, Andrea
title: Optimization of the Directivity of a Monopulse Antenna with a Subarray Weighting by an Hybrid Differential Evolution Method
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subjects: TU
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keywords: Array antennas, Monopulse antennas, Evolutionary algorithm, Sum and difference patterns
abstract: The optimization of the directivity of the difference patterns in monopulse array antennas is considered. A subarrayconfiguration is used in order to avoid the need for the implementation of two separate feed networks. An hybrid differential evolution method is applied to contemporarily determinate the weights of the subarrays and the group membership of the elements. Some numerical results are provided together with a validation comparison with data previously published in the literature. 2006 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
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citation:   Massa, Andrea and Pastorino, Matteo and Randazzo, Andrea  (2011) Optimization of the Directivity of a Monopulse Antenna with a Subarray Weighting by an Hybrid Differential Evolution Method.  [Technical Report]     
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