%X 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.
%D 2018
%A M. Salucci
%A G. Gottardi
%A N. Anselmi
%A G. Oliveri
%I ELEDIA Research Center - University of Trento
%K Planar Arrays Thinning, Almost Difference Sets, Genetic Algorithms, Array Synthesis
%L elediasc12766
%T Synthesis of Planar Thinned Arrays by Means of an Innovative Analytical‐Stochastic Approach