TY - GEN
T1 - Linear antenna array synthesis using fitness-adaptive differential evolution algorithm
AU - Chowdhury, Aritra
AU - Giri, Ritwik
AU - Ghosh, Arnob
AU - Das, Swagatam
AU - Abraham, Ajith
AU - Snasel, Vaclav
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Design of non-uniform linear antenna arrays is one of the most important electromagnetic optimization problems of current interest. In this article, an adaptive Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm has been used to optimize the spacing between the elements of the linear array to produce a radiation pattern with minimum side lobe level and null placement control. DE is arguably one of the best real parameter optimizers of current interest takes very few control parameters and is easy to implement in any programming language. In this study two very simple adaptation schemes are used to regulate the control parameters F and Cr, upon which the performance of DE is critically dependent. The adaptation schemes are based on the objective function values of the target vectors and donor vectors. The adaptive DE-variant has been used to solve three difficult instances of the design problem and the optimization goal in each example is easily achieved. The results of the proposed algorithm have been shown to meet or beat the recently published results obtained using other state-of-the-art metaheuristics like the Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Memetic Algorithms (MA), and Tabu Search (TS) in a statistically meaningful way.
AB - Design of non-uniform linear antenna arrays is one of the most important electromagnetic optimization problems of current interest. In this article, an adaptive Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm has been used to optimize the spacing between the elements of the linear array to produce a radiation pattern with minimum side lobe level and null placement control. DE is arguably one of the best real parameter optimizers of current interest takes very few control parameters and is easy to implement in any programming language. In this study two very simple adaptation schemes are used to regulate the control parameters F and Cr, upon which the performance of DE is critically dependent. The adaptation schemes are based on the objective function values of the target vectors and donor vectors. The adaptive DE-variant has been used to solve three difficult instances of the design problem and the optimization goal in each example is easily achieved. The results of the proposed algorithm have been shown to meet or beat the recently published results obtained using other state-of-the-art metaheuristics like the Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Memetic Algorithms (MA), and Tabu Search (TS) in a statistically meaningful way.
KW - Antenna array
KW - differential evolution
KW - genetic algorithms
KW - metaheuristics
KW - particle swarm optimization
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U2 - 10.1109/CEC.2010.5586518
DO - 10.1109/CEC.2010.5586518
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79959392227
SN - 9781424469109
T3 - 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2010 - 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010
BT - 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2010 - 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010
T2 - 2010 6th IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2010 - 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010
Y2 - 18 July 2010 through 23 July 2010
ER -