Amplitude-only pattern nulling of linear antenna arrays with the use of an immune algorithm

Guney K., BABAYİĞİT B.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RF AND MICROWAVE COMPUTER-AIDED ENGINEERING, cilt.18, sa.5, ss.397-409, 2008 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 18 Sayı: 5
  • Basım Tarihi: 2008
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1002/mmce.20298
  • Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RF AND MICROWAVE COMPUTER-AIDED ENGINEERING
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.397-409
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: antenna array, immune algorithm, pattern nulling, pattern synthesis
  • Erciyes Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This article presents an optimization immune algorithm (opt-IA) for null steering of linear antenna arrays by controlling only the element amplitudes. Nulling of the pattern is also achieved by controlling the phase-only and the complex weights (both the amplitude and phase) of the array elements. The opt-IA is a new evolutionary computing algorithm based on the clonal selection principle of immune system. To show the accuracy and flexibility of the proposed opt-IA, several examples of Chebyshev array pattern with the imposed single, multiple, and broad nulls are given. It is found that the nulling technique based on opt-IA is capable of steering the array nulls precisely to the undesired interference directions. (c) 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.