It is required in the diagonally loaded robust adaptive beamforming the automatic determination of the loading level which is practically a challenging problem.A constant modulus restoral method is herein presented to...It is required in the diagonally loaded robust adaptive beamforming the automatic determination of the loading level which is practically a challenging problem.A constant modulus restoral method is herein presented to choose the diagonal loading level adaptively for the extraction of a desired signal with constant modulus(a common feature of the phase modulation signals).By introducing the temporal smoothing technique,the proposed constant modulus restoral diagonally loaded robust adaptive beamformer provides increased capability compared with some existing robust adaptive beamformers in rejecting interferences and noise while protecting the signal-of-interest.Simulation results are included to illustrate the performance of the proposed beamformer.展开更多
Most of the reconstruction-based robust adaptive beamforming(RAB)algorithms require the covariance matrix reconstruction(CMR)by high-complexity integral computation.A Gauss-Legendre quadrature(GLQ)method with the high...Most of the reconstruction-based robust adaptive beamforming(RAB)algorithms require the covariance matrix reconstruction(CMR)by high-complexity integral computation.A Gauss-Legendre quadrature(GLQ)method with the highest algebraic precision in the interpolation-type quadrature is proposed to reduce the complexity.The interference angular sector in RAB is regarded as the GLQ integral range,and the zeros of the threeorder Legendre orthogonal polynomial is selected as the GLQ nodes.Consequently,the CMR can be efficiently obtained by simple summation with respect to the three GLQ nodes without integral.The new method has significantly reduced the complexity as compared to most state-of-the-art reconstruction-based RAB techniques,and it is able to provide the similar performance close to the optimal.These advantages are verified by numerical simulations.展开更多
针对采样协方差矩阵中含有信号分量和信号导向矢量失配造成的自适应波束形成器性能下降的问题,提出了一种导向矢量矫正和双层干扰加噪声协方差矩阵重构的稳健波束形成算法。首先,通过子空间投影方法去除接收数据中的干扰和噪声分量来进...针对采样协方差矩阵中含有信号分量和信号导向矢量失配造成的自适应波束形成器性能下降的问题,提出了一种导向矢量矫正和双层干扰加噪声协方差矩阵重构的稳健波束形成算法。首先,通过子空间投影方法去除接收数据中的干扰和噪声分量来进一步矫正信号导向矢量;然后,利用Capon功率谱初步重构干扰加噪声协方差矩阵;接着,利用干扰子空间的正交性和多重信号分类(Multiple Signal Classification,MUSIC)功率谱进一步精确重构干扰加噪声协方差矩阵;最后,计算出最优权值矢量。仿真结果表明,所提算法在大角度失配和低快拍数条件下具有较好的稳健性。展开更多
Consider the problems of frequency-invariant beampattern optimization and robustness in broadband beamforming.Firstly,a global optimization algorithm,which is based on phase compensation of the array manifolds,is used...Consider the problems of frequency-invariant beampattern optimization and robustness in broadband beamforming.Firstly,a global optimization algorithm,which is based on phase compensation of the array manifolds,is used to construct the frequency-invariant beampattern.Compared with some methods presented recently,the proposed algorithm is not only available to get the global optimal solution,but also simple for physical realization.Meanwhile,a robust adaptive broadband beamforming algorithm is also derived by reconstructing the covariance matrix.The essence of the proposed algorithm is to estimate the space-frequency spectrum using Capon estimator firstly,then integrate over a region separated from the desired signal direction to reconstruct the interference-plus-noise covariance matrix,and finally caleulate the adaptive beamformer weights with the reconstructed matrix.The design of beamformer is formulated as a convex optimization problem to be solved.Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed algorithm is almost always close to the optimal value across a wide range of signal to noise ratios.展开更多
The performance of adaptive array beamform-ing algorithms substantially degrades in practice because of a slight mismatch between actual and presumed array res-ponses to the desired signal.A novel robust adaptive beam...The performance of adaptive array beamform-ing algorithms substantially degrades in practice because of a slight mismatch between actual and presumed array res-ponses to the desired signal.A novel robust adaptive beam-forming algorithm based on Bayesian approach is therefore proposed.The algorithm responds to the current envi-ronment by estimating the direction of arrival(DOA)of the actual signal from observations.Computational com-plexity of the proposed algorithm can thus be reduced com-pared with other algorithms since the recursive method is used to obtain inverse matrix.In addition,it has strong robustness to the uncertainty of actual signal DOA and makes the mean output array signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio(SINR)consistently approach the optimum.Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is bet-ter in performance than conventional adaptive beamform-ing algorithms.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61490691,61331019)
文摘It is required in the diagonally loaded robust adaptive beamforming the automatic determination of the loading level which is practically a challenging problem.A constant modulus restoral method is herein presented to choose the diagonal loading level adaptively for the extraction of a desired signal with constant modulus(a common feature of the phase modulation signals).By introducing the temporal smoothing technique,the proposed constant modulus restoral diagonally loaded robust adaptive beamformer provides increased capability compared with some existing robust adaptive beamformers in rejecting interferences and noise while protecting the signal-of-interest.Simulation results are included to illustrate the performance of the proposed beamformer.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(618711496197115962071144)。
文摘Most of the reconstruction-based robust adaptive beamforming(RAB)algorithms require the covariance matrix reconstruction(CMR)by high-complexity integral computation.A Gauss-Legendre quadrature(GLQ)method with the highest algebraic precision in the interpolation-type quadrature is proposed to reduce the complexity.The interference angular sector in RAB is regarded as the GLQ integral range,and the zeros of the threeorder Legendre orthogonal polynomial is selected as the GLQ nodes.Consequently,the CMR can be efficiently obtained by simple summation with respect to the three GLQ nodes without integral.The new method has significantly reduced the complexity as compared to most state-of-the-art reconstruction-based RAB techniques,and it is able to provide the similar performance close to the optimal.These advantages are verified by numerical simulations.
文摘针对采样协方差矩阵中含有信号分量和信号导向矢量失配造成的自适应波束形成器性能下降的问题,提出了一种导向矢量矫正和双层干扰加噪声协方差矩阵重构的稳健波束形成算法。首先,通过子空间投影方法去除接收数据中的干扰和噪声分量来进一步矫正信号导向矢量;然后,利用Capon功率谱初步重构干扰加噪声协方差矩阵;接着,利用干扰子空间的正交性和多重信号分类(Multiple Signal Classification,MUSIC)功率谱进一步精确重构干扰加噪声协方差矩阵;最后,计算出最优权值矢量。仿真结果表明,所提算法在大角度失配和低快拍数条件下具有较好的稳健性。
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51279043,61201411)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(HEUCF120502)the National Key Laboratory on Underwater Acoustic Technology Foundation of China(9140C200203110C2001)
文摘Consider the problems of frequency-invariant beampattern optimization and robustness in broadband beamforming.Firstly,a global optimization algorithm,which is based on phase compensation of the array manifolds,is used to construct the frequency-invariant beampattern.Compared with some methods presented recently,the proposed algorithm is not only available to get the global optimal solution,but also simple for physical realization.Meanwhile,a robust adaptive broadband beamforming algorithm is also derived by reconstructing the covariance matrix.The essence of the proposed algorithm is to estimate the space-frequency spectrum using Capon estimator firstly,then integrate over a region separated from the desired signal direction to reconstruct the interference-plus-noise covariance matrix,and finally caleulate the adaptive beamformer weights with the reconstructed matrix.The design of beamformer is formulated as a convex optimization problem to be solved.Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed algorithm is almost always close to the optimal value across a wide range of signal to noise ratios.
基金was supported by the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education(No.20050145019)Directive Plan of Science Research from the Bureau of Education of Hebei Province(No.Z 2004103).
文摘The performance of adaptive array beamform-ing algorithms substantially degrades in practice because of a slight mismatch between actual and presumed array res-ponses to the desired signal.A novel robust adaptive beam-forming algorithm based on Bayesian approach is therefore proposed.The algorithm responds to the current envi-ronment by estimating the direction of arrival(DOA)of the actual signal from observations.Computational com-plexity of the proposed algorithm can thus be reduced com-pared with other algorithms since the recursive method is used to obtain inverse matrix.In addition,it has strong robustness to the uncertainty of actual signal DOA and makes the mean output array signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio(SINR)consistently approach the optimum.Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is bet-ter in performance than conventional adaptive beamform-ing algorithms.
