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Synthesis of hexagonal planar array using swarm-based optimization algorithms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2014

Anirban Chatterjee  and
Debasis Mandal
Anirban Chatterjee*
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Goa, Farmagudi, Ponda, Goa, India
Debasis Mandal
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bengal College of Engineering and Technology, Durgapur, India
*
Corresponding author: A. Chatterjee Email: snanirban@gmail.com
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Abstract

Nature inspired optimization algorithms, namely artificial bee colony (ABC) optimization and firefly algorithm (FA), have been applied to synthesize beam patterns of a hexagonal planar array of isotropic elements. Two different cases, comprising two different beam patterns of a pencil beam and a square footprint pattern over a bounded region with lower peak sidelobe levels are presented. The pencil beam is generated by thinning the uniformly excited array and the square footprint pattern is generated by imposing optimum amplitudes, phases, and their corresponding states (“on”/“off”) to the array elements. The optimum values of the parameters for both the cases are computed using ABC and FA individually, and the superiority of FA over ABC for the proposed problem in terms of computing solutions for both the cases is established.

Keywords

Optimization algorithmArtificial bee colony (ABC) algorithmFirefly algorithm (FA)Hexagonal planar arraySidelobe level (SLL)Square footprintThinning
Type
Research Papers
Information
International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , April 2015 , pp. 151 - 160
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press and the European Microwave Association 2014 

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