Application of Dynamic Programming to Antenna Array Synthesis

摘要

Dynamic programming is studied as an optimizing technique in the synthesis of unequally spaced symmetrical antenna arrays. The criterion of optimization is to find an element combination which has the lowest value of the peak sidelobe level over a specified angular interval. A nine-element array is synthesized with aperture length 19 #x3bb;0and spacing quantization #x3bb;0/2 using an IBM 1620 computer. It is verified by considering all possible combinations of elements that the dynamic programming technique leads to truly optimum results.