A LINEAR 32x1 ELEMENTS ANTENNA ARRAY FAILURE CORRECTION USING BRAIN STORM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM

The radiation characteristics of antenna array may be disturbed by the faults related to its elements. The presented paper exploits the problem solving ability of brain storm optimization (BSO) which indicates the collective human behavior replica to resolve antenna-element failure problem of linear 32x1 elements antenna array. The amplitude excitations of healthy antenna elements of the array have been re-assigned with the help of the proposed method to obtain the pre-failure characteristics of considered case. The result of numerical example shows the ability of BSO to solve faulty element problem of antenna system in very effective manners.