@techreport{elediasc12766,
       publisher = {ELEDIA Research Center - University of Trento},
            year = {2018},
            type = {Technical Report},
           title = {Synthesis of Planar Thinned Arrays by Means of an Innovative Analytical?Stochastic Approach},
          author = {M. Salucci and G. Gottardi and N. Anselmi and G. Oliveri},
             url = {http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/766/},
        keywords = {Planar Arrays Thinning, Almost Difference Sets, Genetic Algorithms, Array Synthesis},
        abstract = {In this work, an innovative approach is proposed to design planar thinned phased arrays. The proposed methodology exploits the integration of analytical strategies and a global optimization technique in order to solve the limitations of current almost difference sets (ADSs)-based methods. Towards this end, a customization of the optimization operators is performed in order to exploit the a-priori information provided by ADS sequences and guide the optimization performed by a Genetic Algorithm (GA). Some numerical results are shown in order to validate the proposed ADSGA approach for the thinning of planar arrays.}
}