General synthesis method for cylindrical antenna arrays for directive and conformal pattern

This paper describes a new approach to cylindrical antenna controlled by the excitation (amplitude and phase) to synthesize directive lobe and multilobe patterns, and create adaptive nulls in interference direction and large lobe pattern. The proposed method is based on iterative minimization of a function that incorporates constraints imposed in each direction with respect to excitation (amplitude and phase). To verify the performances of the proposed technique, an 16-element cylindrical antenna has been simulated for various types of beam configurations.