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Abstract
A technique that allows to locate defective elements in planar arrays by using some samples of the degraded far-field power pattern is described. This approach uses genetic algorithms to minimize the square of the difference between the far-field power pattern obtained for a given configuration of failed elements and the measured one. The method also allows to detect defective elements that don't fail completely