Design of a planar broad-band antenna using a genetic algorithm and the MoM

Author

Pissoort, Davy ; Rogier, Hendrik ; Olyslager, Frank ; De Zutter, Daniel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol. (INTEC), Ghent Univ., Belgium

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

334

Abstract

In this paper a planar broad-band antenna, which can be used as a ground penetrating radar, is designed by a combination of a genetic algorithm (GA) and a method of moments (MoM) technique. The GA optimizes the shape of the metallisation pattern in order to minimize the return loss in the chosen frequency band of 1-6 GHz, while the return loss is evaluated with a MoM-analysis. The optimization is made more efficient by applying the direct matrix manipulation (DMM) method. In order to distinguish symmetric and non-symmetric objects, an antenna which detects cross-polarization is used.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; broadband antennas; buried object detection; genetic algorithms; ground penetrating radar; method of moments; microwave antennas; minimisation; radar antennas; radar detection; 1 to 6 GHz; DMM method; MoM; cross-polarization; direct matrix manipulation; frequency band; genetic algorithm; ground penetrating radar; metallisation pattern; method of moments; minimization; nonsymmetric objects; planar broad-band antenna; return loss; symmetric objects; Algorithm design and analysis; Frequency; Genetic algorithms; Ground penetrating radar; Metallization; Moment methods; Optimization methods; Radar antennas; Shape; Symmetric matrices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2002. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7330-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2002.1016092

Filename

1016092