A robust adaptive Capon beamforming

  • Authors:
  • Liu Hongqing;Liao Guisheng;Zhang Jie

  • Affiliations:
  • Key Lab for Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi'an Shaanxi, China;-;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing - Fractional calculus applications in signals and systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Adaptive beamforming suffers from performance degradation in the presence of mismatch between the actual and presumed array steering vector of the desired signal. We propose a novel approach to adaptive beamforming that is robust to array errors. The proposed method involves two steps: the first step is to estimate the actual steering vector of the desired signal, and the second is to obtain optimal weight by utilizing the estimated steering vector. Our method belongs to the class of diagonal loading, but the optimal amount of diagonal loading level can be precisely calculated based on the uncertainty set of the steering vector. Moreover, the proposed robust Capon beamforming has an explicit closed-form solution. Computer simulation results demonstrate its excellent performance.