“…Sparse arrays are facing nonlinear and complicate problems, and traditional numerical computation methods can not get the desirable solution. So more and more artificial intelligence methods are introduced in the field, such as dynamic programming algorithm [9], simulated annealing algorithm [2,[6][7][8]10], particle swarm algorithm [5], genetic algorithm [1,3,4,11], etc. Compared with linear and planar arrays, conformal cylindrical arrays have curved structure and are conformal to the carrier, so the synthesis problem of this type of antenna array is multidimensional and nonlinear problem, which is more difficult than the synthesis of linear and planar array [5].…”