Design of a Reconfigurable Antenna Array With Discrete Phase Shifters Using Differential Evolution Algorithm

Abstract—The reconfigurable design problem is to find the element that will result in a sector pattern main beam with side lobes. The same excitation amplitudes apply to the array with zero-phase that should be in a high directivity, low side lobe pencil shaped main beam. Multi-beam antenna arrays have important applications in communications and radar. This paper presents a new method of designing a reconfigurable antenna array with quantized phase excitations using a new evolutionary algorithm called differential evolution (DE). In order to reduce the effect of mutual coupling among the antenna-array elements, the dynamic range ratio is minimized. Additionally, compared with the continuous realization and subsequent quantization, experimental results indicate better performance of the discrete realization of the phase-excitation value of the proposed algorithm. 1.