학술논문

Interval-Bounded Optimal Power Pattern Synthesis of Array Antenna Excitations Robust to Mutual Coupling
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters Antennas Wirel. Propag. Lett. Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE. 22(11):2725-2729 Nov, 2023
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Phased arrays
Calibration
Optimized production technology
Linear antenna arrays
Mutual coupling
Monte Carlo methods
Optimization
Calibration errors
circular interval analysis
convex programming
mutual coupling errors
phased array
tolerance analysis
Language
ISSN
1536-1225
1548-5757
Abstract
A method for the optimal synthesis of linear phased arrays when calibration errors and mutual coupling are present is proposed. Starting from the knowledge of the mutual coupling model and of the calibration tolerances, the circular interval analysis ( CIA ) is used to derive analytic and reliable power pattern bounds used within a convex programming ( CP )-based optimization, such that the lower bound of the power pattern main beam peak is maximized while the sidelobes are constrained by an arbitrary upper-bound mask. To evaluate the reliability and effectiveness of the proposed CIA-CP methodology, a set of representative numerical results is reported and compared with Monte Carlo and full-wave simulations.