A Wide-Beam Antenna for Automotive Radar Based on Improved Particle Swarm Algorithm

Article A Wide-Beam Antenna for Automotive Radar Based on Improved Particle Swarm Algorithm Bin Wang 1, Zhenhua Li 1 and Shufei Yin 1,2,* 1 Shanghai Baolong Automotive Corporation, Shanghai 201619, China 2 School of Automotive Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China * Correspondence: yinshufei@chinabaolong.net Received: 26 August 2024; Revised: 9 September 2024; Accepted: 11 September 2024; Published: 23 September 2024 Abstract: The traditional automotive corner radar antenna has the problem that the horizontal filled of view (FOV) is not large enough, which affects wide detection area capability and driving safety. In order to solve the problem, this paper proposes a wide-beam antenna design method for automotive corner radar based on improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) algorithm. The mathematical model of comb-line antenna for 77 GHz corner radar is established and combined with the IPSO algorithm to achieve wide beam. The algorithm avoids the search process falling into local optimum by introducing an adaptive shrinkage factor and chaotic disturbance when the non-superior particle position is updated. The computational results show that the convergence of the IPSO algorithm is significantly better than standard particle swarm optimization (SPSO) in wide beam forming under the same number of iterations.