Blind adaptive wideband beamforming for circular arrays based on phase mode transformation

  • Authors:
  • Wei Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • Communications Research Group, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

To recover the desired signals without the knowledge of its direction of arrival for a wideband array system is a difficult problem and a direct application of the convolutive blind source separation (BSS) algorithms will not work even for a small number of sensors. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed to solve this blind adaptive wideband beamforming problem based on a uniform circular array. The received array signals are first transformed into different phase modes and each phase mode output is then processed by a filter to achieve a frequency independent response. As a result, a set of instantaneous mixtures of the original source signals is obtained and the original wideband beamforming problem can be readily solved using the standard instantaneous BSS algorithms.