Du Plessis, Warren PaulBin Ghannam, A.2015-03-182015-03-182014-11Du Plessis, WP & Bin Ghannam, A 2014, 'Improved seeding schemes for interleaved thinned array synthesis', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 62, no. 11, pp. 5906-5910.0018-926X (print)1558-2221 (online)10.1109/TAP.2014.2355257http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44045This communication considers the synthesis of interleaved antenna arrays with shared and inactive elements. A hybrid genetic algorithm (GA) where the initial population is seeded with good solutions is proposed. A number of seeding schemes are considered and themost effective of these are identified. The proposed algorithm is shown to reliably produce results with sidelobe level (SLL) values which are close to the optimum and to converge faster than the other algorithms considered. However, some of the seeding schemes mislead the GA and actually produce worse results than random initialization.en© 2014 IEEE. Personal use is permitted, but republication/redistribution requires IEEE permission.Antenna arraysInitializationInterleaved arraysSparse array antennasThinned arraysGenetic algorithm (GA)Sidelobe level (SLL)Postprint Article