Adaptive IIR filter design for single sensor applications

The goal of this research was to investigate the theoretical design and physical implementation of a digital adaptive IIR filter to serve as an enhancement to the traditional active RC or passive RLC anti-aliasing filter. This all-digital filter will reside directly on the DSP engine. As explained in the paper, the adaptive IIR filter is designed to process an oversampled signal coming from a single sensor to reject noise in an acquisition system. Differentiation between the noise and the signal is obtained by exploiting the different auto-correlation functions of the two signals. In contrast to oversampling techniques employed in sampled data systems that are designed to relax the requirements of an analog anti-aliasing filter, this filter will track a signal in the frequency domain. Several power spectral density plots are given to illustrate the performance of the new filter. The results also indicate that the new filter performs well as compared to the Wiener filter in the stationary case