An element spherical sparse algorithm(ESSA)based on a modified genetic algorithm(GA)is proposed to reduce the maximum relative side lobe level of spherical arrays. Features of the elements positions are extracted by using the chromosomes of GA
and the information of elements positions is restructured by means of crossover and mutation
then a new group is generated by merging new information of elements positions. Finally
the best elements positions distribution is generated from the fitness in iteration process
and the optimization model is obtained. ESSA has more degrees of freedom compared with the uniform elements distribution. Simulation results show that the proposed method reduces the maximum relative side lobe level by about 2.6 dB. It is shown that ESSA absolutely realizes randomly seeking in the solution space.
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