An optimal radiation pattern synthesis and correction of mutually coupled circular dipole antenna array

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Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Durgapur, West Bengal, India, 713209

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Abstract – This paper proposes a fundamental approach for radiation pattern correction of the mutually coupled circular dipole antenna array (CDAA) using parametric assimilation technique. The effect of mutual coupling is an indispensable part of any practical design issue of the antenna array. Many analytical and numerical techniques have been put forward in the past few decades for the calculation, compensation and reduction of mutual coupling effect. This paper shows an accurate method for mutual coupling correction by using a recently proposed technique called parametric assimilation technique, where the values of mutual impedance are calculated and assimilated with the values of the desired radiation pattern. The proposed technique is cost-effective, less complicated and easy to implement while achieves better performance for mutually coupled circular dipole antenna array synthesis. Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO) algorithm is a state-of-the-art stochastic algorithm applied here to find the optimal values of the current excitation weights and the inter-element spacing between each element of the CDAA for the desired, uncorrected and corrected far-field radiation pattern synthesis. PSO and DE optimization-based statistical results are also reported to compare the results obtained by using GWO algorithm to confirm the outstanding performance of GWO algorithm based design.

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Scientia Iranica
Volume 29, Issue 3
Transactions on Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering (D)
May and June 2022
Pages 1455-1474

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  • Receive Date: 10 June 2019
  • Revise Date: 23 January 2020
  • Accept Date: 11 May 2020

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