%0 Report
%9 Technical Report
%A Salucci, M.
%A Gottardi, G.
%A Anselmi, N.
%A Oliveri, G.
%D 2018
%F elediasc12:770
%K Planar Arrays Thinning, Almost Difference Sets, Genetic Algorithms, Array Synthesis
%T ADS‐Guided Design of Planar Thinned Phased Arrays Through Genetic Optimization
%U http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/770/
%X This work presents an innovative hybrid approach for synthesizing thinned planar phased arrays. The a-priori information provided  by analytical almost difference sets (ADSs) is profitably exploited by a customized stochastic optimization approach based on genetic algorithms (GAs). Such an ADSGA approach is able to overcome the current limitations of state-of-the-art techniques based on ADSs. Some numerical results are shown in order to assess the potentialities, as well as the limitations, of the proposed design methodology.