@techreport{elediasc12629, author = {L. Poli and P. Rocca and G. Oliveri and A. Massa}, year = {2014}, title = {On the reconfigurabilty of Time-Modulated Linear Arrays subject to Failures - A statistical Analysis}, publisher = {University of Trento}, type = {Technical Report}, keywords = {Evolutionary Optimization, Array Synthesis, Time Modulated Arrays}, url = {http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/629/}, abstract = {In this report, the effectiveness and the robustness of a PSO-based optimization strategy aimed to reconfigure the on?off behavior of the undamaged array elements to provide a countermeasure to the nominal pattern corruption because of the failures is investigated. A statistical analysis is provided in order to show the dependency of the performance of the proposed technique not only on the number of failures, but also on the failure position within the array.} }