An Antenna Array Sidelobe Level Reduction Approach through Invasive Weed Optimization

Table 6

Excitation currents and maximum SLLs of the 8-element CAA obtained by different algorithms.

Algorithm	(I1, I2, I3, I4, I5, I6, I7, I8)	Max SLL (dB)
IWO	0.3985, 0.6434, 0.4675, 1.0000, 0.4329, 0.6780, 0.4401, 0.9638	−6.2535
CS	0.8433, 0.5502, 0.3853, 0.9240, 0.2821, 0.5422, 0.4995, 0.8207	−5.6903
FA	0.5079, 0.8003, 0.6064, 0.6958, 0.4866, 0.2004, 0.5056, 0.9449	−5.6191
BBO	0.2853, 0.2541, 0.5133, 0.7834, 0.6841, 0.7279, 0.3247, 0.6775	−5.5380
PSO	0.9702, 1.0000, 0.4337, 1.0000, 0.7317, 0.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000	−5.4304
Uniform	1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000	−4.1702