Automatic generalized loading for robust adaptive beamforming

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The goal of this letter is to derive robust adaptive beamformers via generalized loading. In the proposed methods, Hermitian matrices are loaded on sample covariance matrix, and this is different from those methods based on the well-known diagonal loading approach. Furthermore, the computation of the loaded matrix is fully automatic, which is scarce in the literature. Numerical examples show that our methods are more robust to errors on array steering vector and sample covariance matrix than other tested parameter-free methods.

Original languageEnglish
JournalIEEE Signal Processing Letters
Volume16
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)219-222
Number of pages4
ISSN1070-9908
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Manuscript received August 28, 2008; revised October 20, 2008. Current version published February 11, 2009. This work was supported by the Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defence, China, under Grant No. A1320070067. The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Prof. Yimin Zhang.

    Research areas

  • Adaptive beamforming, Generalized loading, Minimum variance beamforming, Robust beamforming

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