eprintid: 317 rev_number: 5 eprint_status: archive userid: 5 dir: disk0/00/00/03/17 datestamp: 2011-07-20 lastmod: 2013-06-28 11:22:15 status_changed: 2013-06-28 11:22:15 type: techreport metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Massa, Andrea creators_name: Azaro, Renzo creators_name: Donelli, Massimo creators_name: Benedetti, Manuel creators_name: Rocca, Paolo title: Complex Synthesis of Antenna Structures Through Evolutionary-Optimization Techniques ispublished: pub subjects: TU full_text_status: public abstract: In this paper, three antenna problems concerned with both the synthesis and the control (i.e., a real-time synthesis) are formulated and solved by using innovative and ad-hoc versions of evolutionary optimization techniques. In order to assess the effectiveness of the proposed techniques, some representative results are compared with those obtained with standard versions of optimizers or state-of-the-art deterministic approaches. This is the author's version of the final version available at IEEE. date: 2011-01 date_type: published institution: University of Trento department: informaticat refereed: FALSE referencetext: [1] S. P. Applebaum, “Adaptive Arrays,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 24, pp. 585-598, Sep. 1976. [2] B. Widrow et al., “Adaptive Antenna System,” Proc. IEEE, vol. 55, pp. 2143-2159, Dec. 1967. [3] R. L. Haupt, “Phase-only adaptive nulling with a genetic algorithm,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 45, pp. 1009-1015, Jun. 1997. [4] D. S. Weile and E. Michielssen, “The control of adaptive antenna arrays with genetic algorithms using dominance and diploidy,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 49, pp. 1424-1433, Oct. 2001. [5] M. Donelli et al., “An Innovative Computational Approach Based on a Particle Swarm Strategy for Adaptive Phased-Arrays Control,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 54, pp. 888-898, Mar. 2006. [6] M. Benedetti et al., “PSO-based real-time control of planar uniform circular arrays,” IEEE Antenna Wireless Propagat. Lett., vol. 5, pp. 545-548, Dec. 2006. [7] A. J. Fenn, “Evaluation of adaptive phased array antenna far-field nulling performance in the near-field region,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 173-185, Feb. 1990. [8] A. Massa et al., “Planar antenna array control with genetic algorithms and adaptive array theory,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 52, Nov. 2004. [9] J. Gianvittorio and Y. Rahmat-Samii, "Fractals antennas: A novel antenna miniaturization technique, and applications," IEEE Antennas Propagat. Mag., vol. 44, pp. 20-36, Feb. 2002. [10] C. P. Baliarda, J. Romeu, and A. Cardama, "The Koch monopole: a small fractal antenna," IEEE Antennas Propagat. Mag., vol. 48, pp. 1773-1781, Nov. 2000. [11] R. Azaro et al., “Synthesis and optimization of pre-fractal multiband antennas,” Proc. EUCAP 2006, Nice, Nov. 2006. [12] D. H. Werner and R. Mittra, Frontiers in electromagnetics. Piscataway: IEEE Press, 2000. [13] S. Caorsi et al., "Optimization of the difference patterns for monopulse antennas by a hybrid real/integer- coded differential evolution method," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 53, pp. 372-376, Jan. 2005. [14] L. Manica et al., “A design procedure for sum and difference patterns by means of reactive sorting algorithms,” Proc. EUCAP 2006, Nice, Nov. 2006. [15] M. Dorigo, V. Maniezzo, and A. Colorni, "Ant system: optimization by a colony of cooperating agents," IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. B, vol. 26, pp. 29-41, Feb. 1996. citation: Massa, Andrea and Azaro, Renzo and Donelli, Massimo and Benedetti, Manuel and Rocca, Paolo (2011) Complex Synthesis of Antenna Structures Through Evolutionary-Optimization Techniques. [Technical Report] document_url: http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/317/1/DISI-11-225.C140.pdf