Elliptical Antenna Array Synthesis Using Backtracking Search Optimisation Algorithm

Kerim Guney; Ali Durmus

doi:10.14429/dsj.66.9583

Kerim Guney Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Nuh Naci Yazgan University
Ali Durmus Department of Electricity and Energy, Vocational College, Erciyes University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14429/dsj.66.9583

Keywords: Elliptical antenna array, backtracking search optimisation algorithm, sidelobe suppression

Abstract

The design of the elliptical antenna arrays is relatively new research area in the antenna array community. Backtracking search optimisation algorithm (BSA) is employed for the synthesis of elliptical antenna arrays having different number of array elements. For this aim, BSA is used to calculate the optimum angular position and amplitude values of the array elements. BSA is a population-based iterative evolutionary algorithm. The remarkable properties of BSA are that it has a good optimisation performance, simple implementation structure, and few control parameters. The results of BSA are compared with those of self-adaptive differential evolution algorithm, firefly algorithm, biogeography based optimisation algorithm, and genetic algorithm. The results show that BSA can reach better solutions than the compared optimisation algorithms. Iterative performances of BSA are also compared with those of bacterial foraging algorithm and differential search algorithm.

Author Biographies

Kerim Guney, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Nuh Naci Yazgan University

Dr Kerim Guney received the BS from Erciyes University, Kayseri, in 1983, the MS from Istanbul Technical University, in 1988, and the PhD from Erciyes University, in 1991, all in electronic engineering. Presently working as a Professor at the Engineering Faculty in Nuh Naci Yazgan University, where he is working in the areas of optimisation techniques, fuzzy inference systems, neural networks, their applications to antennas, the analysis and synthesis of planar transmission lines, microstrip and horn antennas, antenna pattern synthesis, and target tracking.

Ali Durmus, Department of Electricity and Energy, Vocational College, Erciyes University

Mr Ali Durmus received the BS and MS in electrical and electronics engineering from Erciyes University, Kayseri, in 2003 and 2005, respectively. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD from Erciyes University. His current research activities include : Antennas, antenna arrays, evolutionary algorithms, and computational electromagnetics.