Research Article

An Antenna Array Sidelobe Level Reduction Approach through Invasive Weed Optimization

Table 8

Excitation currents and maximum SLL of the 32-element CAA obtained by different algorithms.

Algorithm(I1, I2, I3, I4, I5, I6, I7, I8, I9, I10, I11, I12, I13, I14, I15, I16, I17, I18, I19, I20, I21, I22, I23, I24, I25, I26, I27, I28, I29, I30, I31, I32)Max SLL (dB)

IWO0.6962, 0.8724, 0.9469, 0.3662, 0.6728, 0.0000, 0.1661, 0.1986, 0.3027, 0.0027, 0.4057, 0.4835, 0.8900, 0.9488, 0.5514, 0.3984, 0.6691, 0.9885, 0.5369, 0.5013, 0.1124, 0.0000, 0.2475, 0.5433, 0.0866, 0.0022, 0.2773, 0.4401, 0.5761, 0.9800, 0.6543, 0.6568−12.7489
CS0.4882, 0.7702, 0.6405, 0.3620, 0.6630, 0.0012, 0.0000, 0.4578, 0.6467, 0.0000, 0.6134, 0.9036, 1.0000, 1.0000, 0.3819, 0.7429, 1.0000, 0.5358, 0.7066, 0.6653, 0.4260, 0.0733, 0.3589, 0.2861, 0.0822, 0.0613, 0.2267, 0.3179, 0.5606, 0.7464, 0.4997, 0.7752−11.6105
FA0.5033, 0.9810, 0.9763, 0.7815, 0.2773, 0.2609, 0.2942, 0.2791, 0.3200, 0.4224, 0.1447, 0.5089, 0.4782, 0.4259, 0.9683, 0.6367, 0.8785, 0.7848, 0.5544, 0.8588, 0.3806, 0.1826, 0.1038, 0.3516, 0.3241, 0.0781, 0.4653, 0.4521, 0.7865, 0.9838, 0.6276, 0.5940−11.3841
BBO0.9960, 0.8963, 0.7448, 0.8392, 0.6942, 0.3150, 0.0000, 0.2426, 0.0171, 0.2492, 1.0000, 0.6806, 0.6796, 0.4954, 0.4173, 0.9256, 0.9525, 0.5485, 1.0000, 0.6544, 0.8278, 0.1468, 0.6944, 0.4708, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.2895, 0.5924, 0.9188, 0.9119, 0.6243, 1.0000−10.8523
PSO0.4045, 1.0000, 1.0000, 0.6247, 1.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.9881, 1.0000, 0.0000, 0.0606, 0.8151, 1.0000, 1.0000, 0.6900, 0.4287, 1.0000, 0.6354, 0.6957, 1.0000, 0.0136, 0.0000, 1.0000, 0.3149, 0.0000, 0.3271, 0.6709, 0.3145, 1.0000, 1.0000, 0.8568, 1.0000−10.6564
Uniform1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000, 1.0000−7.5386