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In this paper we propose a new algorithm called An Informative Differential Evolution with Self Adaptive Reclustering Technique to find the amplitude-phase excitation of a linear phased array to have the desired far field pattern. Here we consider three problems for three different far field patterns and each problem is optimized with this algorithm. This algorithm has a proper balancing of exploration and exploitation power which is achieved with the help of information exchange among the subpopulations. We also used an elitist local search algorithm for the fine tuning at the suspected optimal position, and that helps us from the unnecessary wastage of Function Evaluations (FEs).

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Mr. Dipankar Maity

Dr. Udit Halder

Dr. Swagatam Das