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Signal-Blocking-Based Robust Adaptive Beamforming by Interference Null Space Projection

간섭 널 공간 투사에 의한 신호차단 방식의 적응 빔 형성

  • Received : 2010.12.07
  • Accepted : 2011.04.04
  • Published : 2011.04.30
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Abstract

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.

적응 빔 형성기 (adaptive beamformer)는 원하는 신호의 도래각 정보를 이용하여 간섭신호를 제거하면서 원하는 신호 방향으로 어레이 이득을 최대로 한다. 그러나 도래각 정보가 정확치 않다면, 원하는 신호도 감쇠되어 심각한 성능저하가 발생한다. 이러한 문제에 대처하기위해, 신호차단에 기초하여 적응 빔을 형성하는 Duvall 구조를 이용하여, 효과적으로 원하는 신호의 도래각 추정을 통해 에러에 강인한 적응 빔 형성방법을 제시하였다. 제시된 방법에서는 간섭신호공간을 추정하여 이에 직교하도록 간단한 계산을 통해 가중벡터를 구하며, 특히 센서의 수가 많을수록 기존 방식에 비해 계산량의 절감이 크다.

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