ROBUST ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING WITH BROAD NULLS

• Main Authors: Yudong, He, Xianghua, Yang, Jie, Zhou, Banghua, Zhou, Beibei, Shao
• Other Authors: Tsinghua University
• Language: en_US
• Published: International Foundation for Telemetering 2007
• Subjects: Newton recursive algorithm; robust adaptive beamforming; worst-case performance optimization; broad nulls
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/604533; http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/604533

ITC/USA 2007 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Third Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 22-25, 2007 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada === Robust adaptive beamforming using worst-case performance optimization is developed in recent years. It had good performance against array response errors, but it cannot reject strong interferences. In this paper, we propose a scheme for robust adaptive beamforming with broad nulls to reject strong interferences. We add a quadratic constraint to suppress the power of the array response over a spatial region of the interferences. The optimal weighting vector is then obtained by minimizing the power of the array output subject to quadratic constrains on the desired signal and interferences, respectively. We derive the formulations for the optimization problem and solve it efficiently using Newton recursive algorithm. Numerical examples are presented to compare the performances of the robust adaptive beamforming with no null constrains, sharp nulls and broad nulls. The results show its powerful ability to reject strong interferences.