TY - RPRT A1 - Salucci, M. A1 - Gottardi, G. A1 - Anselmi, N. A1 - Oliveri, G. ID - elediasc12766 AV - public PB - ELEDIA Research Center - University of Trento KW - Planar Arrays Thinning KW - Almost Difference Sets KW - Genetic Algorithms KW - Array Synthesis TI - Synthesis of Planar Thinned Arrays by Means of an Innovative Analytical?Stochastic Approach Y1 - 2018/// UR - http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/766/ M1 - technical_report N2 - 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. ER -