Pattern Synthesis of 4-D Irregular Antenna Arrays Based on Maximum-Entropy Model

• Published in: IEEE transactions on antennas and propagation Vol. 67; no. 5; pp. 3048 - 3057
• Main Authors: Ma, Yankai, Yang, Shiwen, Chen, Yikai, Qu, Shi-Wei, Hu, Jun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.05.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: 4-D antenna arrays; Antenna arrays; Antennas; Array signal processing; Beamforming; differential evolution (DE) algorithm; Entropy; Evolutionary algorithms; Evolutionary computation; Genetic algorithms; irregular arrays; Manganese; Mathematical models; maximum-entropy model; Optimization; Synthesis; Topology; Topology optimization

The 4-D antenna arrays with the irregular array topology have great advantages in simplifying the beamforming network and reducing the cost. However, the complexity of such synthesis problems limited their development. An effective joint optimization approach based on the maximum-entropy model is pr...