AI-Powered Methodologies for Antenna and Arrays Control

The problem of controlling the radiation properties of antennas and arrays in real time is of fundamental importance in a wide variety of applicative scenarios ranging from B5G/6G communications to radar and remote sensing. The physical-level configuration of antenna systems include controlling their radiation pattern properties, spatial/frequency filtering capabilities, and scanning/nulling directions, for instance. In this framework, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful paradigm to address the complexity associated to antenna and array control problems in a scalable and efficient manner. The research carried out within the ELEDIA Research Center in this area includes

AI for autonomous radar systems (detection, ranging, identification, tracking, segmentation, recognition);
real-time control of microwave arrays for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) observation through AI-based optimization;
B5G and 6G massive MIMO array control for user-oriented performance;
cognitive beamforming algorithms;
adaptive control and optimization of time-modulated arrays and timed arrays.

Related Projects: ULTRA-I, ULTRA-II, AIRSPEED

For additional information contact us at contact@eledia.org

F. Zardi, G. Oliveri, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, "Minimum-Complexity Failure Correction in Linear Arrays via Compressive Processing," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 69, no. 8, pp. 4504-4516, August 2021 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2020.3045511)
A. Massa, A. Benoni, P. Da Rù, S. Goudos, B. Li, G. Oliveri, A. Polo, P. Rocca, and M. Salucci, "Designing Smart Electromagnetic Environments for Next-Generation Wireless Communications," Telecom vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 213-221, May 2021 (DOI: 10.3390/telecom2020014)
M. Salucci, G. Oliveri, M. Hannan, and A. Massa, "System-by-Design Paradigm-Based Synthesis of Complex Systems: The case of spline-contoured 3D radomes," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 72-83, February 2022 (DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2021.3099719)
P. Rocca, N. Anselmi, G. Oliveri, A. Polo, and A. Massa, "Antenna Array Thinning Through Quantum Fourier Transform," IEEE Access vol. 9, pp. 124313-124323 2021 (DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3109938)
L. Bui, N. Anselmi, T. Isernia, P. Rocca, and A. Morabito, "On bandwidth maximization of fixed-geometry arrays through convex programming," Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 581-600, February 2020 (DOI: 10.1080/09205071.2020.1724832)
F. Boulos, L. Dall'Asta, G. Gottardi, M. Abdul Hannan, A. Polo, and A. Salas-Sanchez, "A convex optimization-based inversion method for the synthesis of monopulse linear arrays," Journal of Physics: Conference Series vol. 1476, no. 1, pp. 012014, March 2020 (DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1476/1/012014)
G. Oliveri, A. Gelmini, A. Polo, N. Anselmi, and A. Massa, "System-by-Design Multiscale Synthesis of Task-Oriented Reflectarrays," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 2867-2882, April 2020 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2019.2955217)
P. Rocca, N. Anselmi, A. Polo, and A. Massa, "Modular Design of Hexagonal Phased Arrays Through Diamond Tiles," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 3598-3612, May 2020 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2019.2963561)
P. Rocca, N. Anselmi, A. Polo, and A. Massa, "An Irregular Two-Sizes Square Tiling Method for the Design of Isophoric Phased Arrays," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 4437-4449, June 2020 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2020.2970088)
P. Rocca, L. Poli, A. Polo, and A. Massa, "Optimal Excitation Matching Strategy for Sub-Arrayed Phased Linear Arrays Generating Arbitrary-Shaped Beams," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 4638-4647, June 2020 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2020.2972641)
P. Rocca, N. Anselmi, A. Benoni, and A. Massa, "Probabilistic Interval Analysis for the Analytic Prediction of the Pattern Tolerance Distribution in Linear Phased Arrays With Random Excitation Errors," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 7866-7878, December 2020 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2020.2998924)
F. Boulos, L. Dall'Asta, G. Gottardi, M. Abdul Hannan, A. Polo, A. Salas-Sanchez, and M. Salucci, "A computational inversion method for interference suppression in reconfigurable thinned ring arrays," Journal of Physics: Conference Series vol. 1476, no. 1, pp. 012016, March 2020 (DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1476/1/012016)
P. Rocca, M. Hannan, L. Poli, N. Anselmi, and A. Massa, "Optimal Phase-Matching Strategy for Beam Scanning of Sub-Arrayed Phased Arrays," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 951-959, February 2019 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2018.2879778)
M. Salucci, L. Tenuti, G. Gottardi, A. Hannan, and A. Massa, "System‐by‐design method for efficient linear array miniaturisation through low‐complexity isotropic lenses," Electronics Letters vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 433-434, April 2019 (DOI: 10.1049/el.2018.6653)
G. Oliveri, G. Gottardi, and A. Massa, "A New Meta-Paradigm for the Synthesis of Antenna Arrays for Future Wireless Communications," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 3774-3788, June 2019 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2019.2906433)
N. Anselmi, G. Gottardi, G. Oliveri, and A. Massa, "A Total-Variation Sparseness-Promoting Method for the Synthesis of Contiguously Clustered Linear Arrays," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 4589-4601, July 2019 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2019.2911375)
M. Salucci, G. Oliveri, N. Anselmi, G. Gottardi, and A. Massa, "Performance enhancement of linear active electronically scanned arrays by means of MbD-synthesized metalenses," Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 927-955, December 2017 (DOI: 10.1080/09205071.2017.1410077)
M. Salucci, G. Oliveri, N. Anselmi, and A. Massa, "Material-by-Design Synthesis of Conformal Miniaturized Linear Phased Arrays," IEEE Access vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 26367-26382 2018 (DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2833199)
N. Anselmi, P. Rocca, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, "Contiguous Phase-Clustering in Multibeam-on-Receive Scanning Arrays," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 5879-5891, November 2018 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2018.2864628)
M. Salucci, A. Gelmini, G. Oliveri, and A. Massa, "Planar Array Diagnosis by Means of an Advanced Bayesian Compressive Processing," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 5892-5906, November 2018 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2018.2866534)
N. Anselmi, L. Poli, P. Rocca, and A. Massa, "Design of Simplified Array Layouts for Preliminary Experimental Testing and Validation of Large AESAs," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 66, no. 12, pp. 6906-6920, December 2018 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2018.2874433)
J. Guo, L. Poli, M. Hannan, P. Rocca, S. Yang, and A. Massa, "Time-Modulated Arrays for Physical Layer Secure Communications: Optimization-Based Synthesis and Experimental Assessment," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 66, no. 12, pp. 6939-6949, December 2018 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2018.2870381)
M. Salucci, C. Castlunger, D. Marcantonio, G. Oliveri, F. Robol, P. Rosatti, L. Tosato, F. Zardi, and A. Massa, "High Density Interconnect Microstrip Patch Antenna for 5G Base Stations with Integrated Filtering Performance," Technologies vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 45, April 2018 (DOI: 10.3390/technologies6020045)
M. Salucci, M. Migliore, G. Oliveri, and A. Massa, "Antenna Measurements-by-Design for Antenna Qualification," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 6300-6312, November 2018 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2018.2862469)
M. Salucci, G. Gottardi, N. Anselmi, and G. Oliveri, "Planar thinned array design by hybrid analytical‐stochastic optimisation," IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation vol. 11, no. 13, pp. 1841-1845, October 2017 (DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2017.0349)
G. Gottardi, L. Poli, P. Rocca, A. Montanari, A. Aprile, and A. Massa, "Optimal Monopulse Beamforming for Side-Looking Airborne Radars," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters vol. 16, pp. 1221-1224 2017 (DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2016.2628881)
P. Rocca, M. Hannan, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, "Single-Snapshot DoA Estimation in Array Antennas With Mutual Coupling Through a Multiscaling BCS Strategy," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 65, no. 6, pp. 3203-3213, June 2017 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2017.2684137)
L. Poli, G. Oliveri, P. Rocca, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, "Long-distance WPT unconventional arrays synthesis," Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications vol. 31, no. 14, pp. 1399-1420, July 2017 (DOI: 10.1080/09205071.2017.1348998)
N. Anselmi, P. Rocca, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, "Irregular Phased Array Tiling by Means of Analytic Schemata-Driven Optimization," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 65, no. 9, pp. 4495-4510, Septempber 2017 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2017.2722539)
A. Yao, P. Rocca, W. Wu, A. Massa, and D. Fang, "Synthesis of Time-Modulated Frequency Diverse Arrays for Short-Range Multi-Focusing," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 282-294, March 2017 (DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2016.2615267)
J. Guo, S. Yang, Y. Chen, P. Rocca, J. Hu, and A. Massa, "Efficient Sideband Suppression in 4-D Antenna Arrays Through Multiple Time Modulation Frequencies," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 7063-7072, December 2017 (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2017.2766444)
P. Rocca, D. Masotti, A. Costanzo, M. Salucci, and L. Poli, "The Role of Accurate Dynamic Analysis for Evaluating Time-Modulated Arrays Performance," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters vol. 16, pp. 2663-2666 2017 (DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2017.2740359)
N. Anselmi, P. Rocca, M. Salucci, and A. Massa, "Optimisation of excitation tolerances for robust beamforming in linear arrays," IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 208-214, January 2016 (DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2015.0508)

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