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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume 47 Number 3, March 1999

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Genetic Algorithms in the Design and Optimization of Antenna Array Patterns

Francisco J. Ares-Pena, Senior Member, IEEE, Juan A. Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Emilio Villanueva-Lopez, and S. R. Rengarajan, Fellow, IEEE

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Abstract:

This paper demonstrates the application of genetic algorithms (GA's) in array pattern synthesis. GA's have the ability to escape from local minima and maxima and are ideally suited for problems where the number of variables is very high. We present three examples: two for linear arrays and one involving linear and planar arrays.

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