most citedBuilding a Smart EM Environment -- AI-Enhanced Aperiodic Micro-Scale Design of Passive EM Skins

84 citations · 500 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

physics.class-ph2021

Smart Radio Environments

Gabriele Gradoni, Marco Di Renzo, Ana Diaz-Rubio +27

This Roadmap takes the reader on a journey through the research in electromagnetic wave propagation control via reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. Meta-surface modelling and desi…

eess.SY2021★ 73 cited

Planning of EM Skins for Improved Quality-of-Service in Urban Areas

Arianna Benoni, Marco Salucci, Giacomo Oliveri +3

The optimal planning of electromagnetic skins (EMSs) installed on the building facades to enhance the received signal strength, thus the wireless coverage and/or the quality-of-ser…

eess.SY2021★ 61 cited

On the Design of Modular Reflecting EM Skins for Enhanced Urban Wireless Coverage

Paolo Rocca, Pietro Da Rù, Nicola Anselmi +4

The design of modular, passive, and static artificial metasurfaces to be used as electromagnetic skins (EMSs) of buildings for improving the coverage in urban millimeter-wave commu…

eess.SY2021★ 84 cited

Building a Smart EM Environment -- AI-Enhanced Aperiodic Micro-Scale Design of Passive EM Skins

Giacomo Oliveri, Francesco Zardi, Paolo Rocca +2

An innovative process for the design of static passive smart skins (SPSSs) is proposed to take into account, within the synthesis, the electromagnetic (EM) interactions due to thei…

eess.SP2021

Modular Sparse Conical Multi-beam Phased Array Design for Air Traffic Control Radar

Paolo Rocca, Nicola Anselmi, Mohammad Abdul Hannan +1

The design of a conical phased array antenna for air traffic control (ATC) radar systems is addressed in this work. The array, characterized by a fully digital beam-forming (DBF) a…

cs.IT2021★ 10 cited

A Bayesian Compressive Sensing Approach to Robust Near-Field Antenna Characterization

Marco Salucci, Nicola Anselmi, Marco Donald Migliore +1

A novel probabilistic sparsity-promoting method for robust near-field (NF) antenna characterization is proposed. It leverages on the measurements-by-design (MebD) paradigm and it e…

quant-ph2021

Antenna Array Thinning Through Quantum Computing

Paolo Rocca, Nicola Anselmi, Giacomo Oliveri +2

Thinning antenna arrays through quantum Fourier transform (QFT) is proposed. Given the lattice of the candidate locations for the array elements, the problem of selecting which ant…

eess.SY2021★ 2 cited

Learned Global Optimization for Inverse Scattering Problems -- Matching Global Search with Computational Efficiency

Marco Salucci, Lorenzo Poli, Paolo Rocca +1

The computationally-efficient solution of fully non-linear microwave inverse scattering problems (ISPs) is addressed. An innovative System-by-Design (SbD) based method is proposed…

eess.SY2021

Holographic Smart EM Skins for Advanced Beam Power Shaping in Next Generation Wireless Environments

Giacomo Oliveri, Paolo Rocca, Marco Salucci +1

An innovative approach for the synthesis of inexpensive holographic smart electromagnetic (EM) skins with advanced beamforming features is proposed. The complex multiscale smart sk…

eess.SP2021★ 22 cited

SbD-Based Synthesis of Low-Profile WAIM Superstrates for Printed Patch Arrays

G. Oliveri, A. Polo, M. Salucci +2

An innovative strategy for the design of low-profile wide-angle impedance matching (WAIM) superstrates to active return loss (ARL) stability of scanned microstrip-printed periodic…

physics.app-ph2021★ 26 cited

Pareto-Optimal Domino-Tiling of Orthogonal Polygon Phased Arrays

Paolo Rocca, Nicola Anselmi, Alessandro Polo +1

The modular design of planar phased arrays arranged on orthogonal polygon-shaped apertures is addressed and a new method is proposed to synthesize domino-tiled arrays fitting multi…

eess.SY2021★ 21 cited

Minimum-Complexity Failure Correction in Linear Arrays via Compressive Processing

F. Zardi, G. Oliveri, M. Salucci +1

Given an array with defective elements, failure correction (FC) aims at finding a new set of weights for the working elements so that the properties of the original pattern can be…

eess.SP2021★ 54 cited

Modular Design of Hexagonal Phased Arrays Through Diamond Tiles

P. Rocca, N. Anselmi, A. Polo +1

The modular design of planar phased array antennas with hexagonal apertures is addressed by means of innovative diamond-shaped tiling techniques. Both tiling configuration and suba…

eess.SP2021★ 54 cited

An Irregular Two-Sizes Square Tiling Method for the Design of Isophoric Phased Arrays

P. Rocca, N. Anselmi, A. Polo +1

The design of isophoric phased arrays composed of two-sized square-shaped tiles that fully cover rectangular apertures is dealt with. The number and the positions of the tiles with…

eess.SP2021★ 42 cited

Optimal Excitation Matching Strategy for Sub-Arrayed Phased Linear Arrays Generating Arbitrary-Shaped Beams

P. Rocca, L. Poli, A. Polo +1

The design of phased arrays able to generate arbitrary-shaped beams through a sub-arrayed architecture is addressed here. The synthesis problem is cast in the excitation matching f…

eess.SP2021★ 28 cited

Probabilistic Interval Analysis for the Analytic Prediction of the Pattern Tolerance Distribution in Linear Phased Arrays With Random Excitation Errors

P. Rocca, N. Anselmi, A. Benoni +1

A statistical approach based on the interval analysis (IA) is proposed for the analysis of the effects, on the radiation patterns radiated by phased arrays, of random errors and to…

cs.IT2021★ 23 cited

A Total-Variation Sparseness-Promoting Method for the Synthesis of Contiguously Clustered Linear Arrays

N. Anselmi, G. Gottardi, G. Oliveri +1

By exploiting an innovative total-variation compressive sensing (TV-CS) formulation, a new method for the synthesis of physically contiguous clustered linear arrays is presented. T…