TY - RPRT A1 - Salucci, M. A1 - Gottardi, G. A1 - Anselmi, N. A1 - Oliveri, G. ID - elediasc12770 AV - public KW - Planar Arrays Thinning KW - Almost Difference Sets KW - Genetic Algorithms KW - Array Synthesis PB - ELEDIA Research Center - University of Trento TI - ADS?Guided Design of Planar Thinned Phased Arrays Through Genetic Optimization Y1 - 2018/// UR - http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/770/ M1 - technical_report N2 - 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. ER -