Title : 
A study of ESPAR antenna
         
        
            Author : 
Abdullah, N. ; Kuwahara, Y.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Commun. Eng., Univ. Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Recently, ESPAR antenna has gained much attention because of it´s capability to eliminate interference automatically. Many studies had been carried out using different optimization method. This paper introduced downhill simplex method as an optimization. From the simulation, it shows that this method is the fastest and efficient method compared to other methods.
         
        
            Keywords : 
antenna radiation patterns; interference suppression; optimisation; ESPAR antenna; interference elimination; optimization method; simplex method; Adaptive arrays; Antenna arrays; Array signal processing; Automatic control; Contracts; Cost function; Fabrication; Interference elimination; Optimization methods; Power dissipation;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology (ICMMT), 2010 International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Chengdu
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-5705-2
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICMMT.2010.5525159