An Effective Hybrid Synthesis Strategy of Multibeam Subarray

In this article, an effective hybrid method is proposed to design the subarrays generating multiple functional beams. In the process of synthesis, one of the target patterns is selected as the primary pattern which is generated at the element level. Other secondary patterns are generated at the suba...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on antennas and propagation Vol. 70; no. 4; pp. 2623 - 2632
Main Authors: Gong, Yu, Xiao, Shaoqiu, Zheng, Yu, Wang, Bingzhong
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 01.04.2022
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
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Antenna arrays
Approximation error
Attenuators
Clustering
Clustering methods
Complexity
Configurations
Convex optimization
Convexity
Heuristic algorithms
Optimization
pattern matching
Phase shifters
Phased arrays
subarray partition
Synthesis
ISSN:0018-926X, 1558-2221
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Summary:In this article, an effective hybrid method is proposed to design the subarrays generating multiple functional beams. In the process of synthesis, one of the target patterns is selected as the primary pattern which is generated at the element level. Other secondary patterns are generated at the subarray level by dividing the elements into nonoverlapped subarrays and utilizing attenuators and phase shifters at the subarray outputs. To simplify the complexity of the feed network, the subarray configurations of secondary patterns are the same. The proposed method consists of two steps. In the first step, the subarray configuration of the phased array is optimized by the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">{K} </tex-math></inline-formula>-means clustering method. In the second step, the convex optimization method is applied to acquiring the complex weighting coefficients of subarrays, which can improve the accuracy of the synthesized secondary patterns. A series of numerical examples demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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ISSN:0018-926X
1558-2221
DOI:10.1109/TAP.2021.3118710