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http://dx.doi.org/10.7776/ASK.2017.36.2.115

Robust adpative beamforming for triplet sonar arrays  

Ahn, Jae-Kyun (국방과학연구소)
Ryu, Yongwoo (국방과학연구소)
Chun, Seung-Yong (국방과학연구소)
Kim, Seongil (국방과학연구소)
Abstract
We propose a robust adaptive beamforming algorithm for triplet array sonar. The proposed beamforming algorithm obtains robustness to mismatches, left/right discrimination, and has two steps. The first is a cardioid beamformer, which supports left/right discrimination of target signals. It applies the conventional delay-and-subtract to each triplet's signal with its rotation angle and obtains multiple cardioid beams. The second is a robust adaptive beamforming to minimize nearby interferences. We regard cardioid beams as input signals of a line array and apply an adaptive beamforming algorithm to the cardioid beams. Simulations results show that the proposed algorithm provides significantly better performance than the conventional algorithms, while supporting left/right discrimination of target signals.
Keywords
Cardioid beamforming; Adaptive beamforming; Triplet arrays; Passive sonar;
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