relation: http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/723/ title: A Minkowski Sum Interval Analysis Approach for Planar Arrays Sensitivity Analysis creator: Tenuti, L. creator: Anselmi, N. creator: Rocca, P. creator: Salucci, M. creator: Massa, A. subject: A WC Next Generation Wireless Communications subject: M AT Analytic Techniques description: In this work, the analysis the excitation tolerances on the radiation performances of planar phased arrays is dealt with. An innovative sensitivity tool is proposed, based on interval arithmetic and the Minkowski sum. Narrow but inclusive bounds can be analytically derived on the radiation pattern starting from the tolerances on the array excitations (both in amplitude and in phase). Moreover, thanks to the Minkowski sum, narrower intervals are estimated with respect to standard interval analysis (IA) tools based on the Cartesian rules. Some numerical results are shown, in order to verify the effectiveness of the developed approach, by analyzing planar arrays of different sizes. publisher: University of Trento date: 2017 type: Monograph type: NonPeerReviewed format: text language: en identifier: http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/723/1/A%20Minkowski%20Sum%20Interval%20Analysis%20Approach%20for%20Planar%20Arrays%20Sensitivity%20Analysis.pdf identifier: Tenuti, L. and Anselmi, N. and Rocca, P. and Salucci, M. and Massa, A. (2017) A Minkowski Sum Interval Analysis Approach for Planar Arrays Sensitivity Analysis. Technical Report. University of Trento.