• DocumentCode
    3403889
  • Title

    Design of a novel shaped-beam conformal antenna on a complex airborne platform

  • Author

    Ngai, E.C. ; Southall, H.L. ; Marhefka, R.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    20-25 June 2004
  • Firstpage
    2456
  • Abstract
    A novel airborne shaped-beam antenna is designed with a robust genetic algorithm-based pattern synthesis technique. The NEC-BSC Code, a well-known high-frequency electromagnetic solver, is used to take into account the platform scattering.
  • Keywords
    antenna radiation patterns; conformal antennas; electromagnetic wave scattering; genetic algorithms; microstrip antenna arrays; shaped beam antennas; NEC-BSC Code; complex airborne platform; high-frequency electromagnetic solver; pattern synthesis technique; platform scattering; robust genetic algorithm; shaped-beam conformal antenna; Aircraft; Algorithm design and analysis; Electromagnetic scattering; Genetic algorithms; Global Positioning System; Laboratories; Microstrip antennas; Modems; Radar scattering; Robustness;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2004. IEEE
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8302-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APS.2004.1331870
  • Filename
    1331870