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Effective Capon Beamforming Robust to Steering Vector Errors  

Choi, Yang-Ho (Dept. of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Kangwon National University)
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Abstract
Adaptive arrays suffer from severe performance degradation when there are errors in the steering vector. The DCRCB (doubly constrained robust Capon beamformer) overcomes such a problem, introducing a spherical uncertainty set of the steering vector together with a norm constraint. However, in the standard DCRCB, it is a difficult task to determine the bound for the uncertainty, the radius of the spherical set, such that a near best solution is obtained. A novel beamforming method is presented which has no difficulty of the uncertainty bound setting, employing a recursive search for the steering vector. Though the basic idea of recursive search has been known, the conventional recursive method needs to set a parameter for the termination of the search. The proposed method terminates it by using distances to the signal subspace, without the need for parameter setting. Simulation demonstrates that the proposed method has better performance than the conventional recursive method and than the non-recursive standard DCRCB, even the one with the optimum uncertainty bound.
Keywords
Robust adaptive beamforming; Capon beamformer; Steering vector errors;
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