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Use of an Evolutionary Tool for Antenna Array Synthesis

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This paper describes an evolutionary approach to the optimization of element antenna arrays. Classic manual or automatic optimization methods do not always yield satisfactory results, being either too labour-intensive or unsuitable for some specific class of problems. The advantage of using an evolutionary approach is twofold: on the one hand it does not introduce any arbitrary assumptions about what kind of solution shows the best promise; on the other hand, being intrinsically non-deterministic, it allows the whole process to be repeated in search of better solutions. A generic evolutionary tool originally developed for a totally different application area, namely test program generation for microprocessors, is employed for the optimization process. The results show both the versatility of the tool (it’s able to autonomously choose the number of array elements) and the validity of the evolutionary approach for this specific problem.

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  1. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129, Torino, Italy

    Luca Manetta, Laura Ollino & Massimiliano Schillaci

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  1. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

    Franz Rothlauf

  2. Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Jürgen Branke

  3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Parma,  

    Stefano Cagnoni

  4. School of Mathematical and Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, EH14 8AS, Edinburgh, UK

    David Wolfe Corne

  5. Institute of Computer Science, University of Bremen, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Rolf Drechsler

  6. Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany

    Yaochu Jin

  7. CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Polo II of the University of Coimbra, 3030, Coimbra, Portugal

    Penousal Machado

  8. ICIS, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Elena Marchiori

  9. Universidade de A Coruña, CP 15071, A Coruña, Spain

    Juan Romero

  10. School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, UEA Norwich, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK

    George D. Smith

  11. Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Squillero

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Manetta, L., Ollino, L., Schillaci, M. (2005). Use of an Evolutionary Tool for Antenna Array Synthesis. In: Rothlauf, F., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3449. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32003-6_25

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