• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.77-86
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• 2002

This paper proposes a modified Duvall beamformer performing spatial smoothing with spatial interpolation. In the proposed beamformer, virtual array signals are generated by spatial interpolation between each neighbor array elements, then all signals are used to perform spatial smoothing. The proposed beamformer overcomes the loss of degrees of freedom caused by spatial smoothing by forming subarrays with interpolated signals. Mathematical description shows that the proposed beamformer can restore the rank of away covariance matrix. Accordingly, the proposed beamformer can minimize the loss of degrees of freedom. Simulation results show that the proposed beamformer can remove all coherent interferences while conventional beamformers cannot.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.4A
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• pp.399-406
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• 2011

Adaptive beamformers, which utilize a priori information on the arrival angle of the desired signal. suppress interferences while maximizing their gains in the desired signal direction. However, if there exist errors in the direction information, they can suffer from severe performance degradation since the desired signal is treated as an interference. A robust adaptive beamforming method is presented which exploits the signal-blocking structure of the Duvall beamformer. The proposed method finds an interference signal space directly from correlations of received signals and then obtains a weight vector such that it is orthogonal to the space. Applying the weight vector to two sub arrays which consist of one less sensors than the original uniform lineal array (ULA), the beamformer efficiently estimates the arrival angle of the desired signal. Its computational complexity is lower than existing methods, which require matrix inversion or eigendecomposition.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.545-548
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• 2000

Adaptive array systems are hard to remove all the interferences when incident signals are coherent with a desired signal. In this paper, we propose a modified Duvall beamformer, which performs spatial smoothing using spatial interpolation technique to maintain the degree of freedom. The propose algorithm can minimize the loss on the degree of freedom due to spatial smoothing by forming subarrays with interpolated signals. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can remove all the interferences while conventional beamformer cannot.