Designing and optimizing a mutually coupled Planar Array Antenna using PSO for UHF application

Author

Pradhan, Hrudananda ; Mangaraj, Biswa Binayak ; Misra, Iti Saha

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun. Eng., VSSUT, Burla, India

fYear

2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm is introduced here to optimize the element spacings and lengths of a mutually coupled Planar Array Antenna to have maximum Directivity (D), minimum Half Power Beam Width (HPBW) and Front to Side Lobe Level (FSLL). The array is simulated with MOM structure code using MATLAB (7.8.0.347) and verified using standard MININEC (14.0) software package for UHF application. The results obtained using PSO for our structure are compared with different structures of antennas of other authors, optimized using various optimization techniques for its performance evaluation.

Keywords

UHF antennas; particle swarm optimisation; planar antenna arrays; FSLL; HPBW; MATLAB; MOM structure code; PSO algorithm; UHF application; front to side lobe level; maximum directivity; minimum half power beam width; mutually coupled planar array antenna; optimization techniques; particle swarm optimization algorithm; standard MININEC software package; Arrays; Linear antenna arrays; Optimization; Planar arrays; Yagi-Uda antennas; Directivity; FSLL; HPBW; MININEC; Mutual Coupling; PSO; Planar Array Antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Bhubaneswar

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3266-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AEMC.2013.7045034

Filename

7045034