An Effective Method for Synthesizing Multiple-Pattern Linear Arrays With a Reduced Number of Antenna Elements

作者：Shen, Haiou^*; Wang, Buhong

来源：IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2017, 65(5): 2358-2366.

DOI：10.1109/TAP.2017.2679344

• Enhanced unitary matrix pencil (EUMP) method
• multiple beams
• pattern synthesis
• reconfigurable arrays
• sparse antenna array

An innovative technique based on the enhanced unitary matrix pencil (MP) method is presented for the design of sparse multiple-pattern linear arrays. By virtue of the equivalent MP obtained with a unitary transformation, the relation between the element positions and the generalized eigenvalues is achieved in this method, which contributes to the real solutions of the common element positions for all multiple patterns. Owing to the utilization of a unitary transformation that can convert a complex matrix to a real one, the computational complexity can be significantly reduced since only the real computations are involved in the singular value decomposition and eigenvalue decomposition procedures. Consequently, by only varying the obtained excitation distributions, different patterns are generated with a higher matching accuracy. Representative experiments are provided to validate the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed method.

• 出版日期2017-5
• 单位中国人民解放军空军工程大学