Performance sensitivity of optimum beamformers

Author

Mathur, Shamla ; Reddy, D.C.

Author_Institution

Res. & Training Unit for Navigational Electron., Osmania Univ., Hyderabad, India

fYear

1989

fDate

22-24 Nov 1989

Firstpage

836

Lastpage

839

Abstract

The objective of this work is to study the effect of arbitrary and small look-direction errors on the gain-pattern of the Capon (1969) beamformer and on the optimum interference notch for the general case any number of sensors and sources, and to compare their relative performance. In this analysis, explicit expressions for the sensitivity functions, defined as the derivative of the array response with respect to look-direction errors, were derived. Using these expressions, the perturbations in the array gains at the source directions were evaluated and compared with the actual ones and they were found to be very close

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; interference (signal); sensitivity; Capon beamformer; array gain perturbations; array response; gain-pattern; look-direction errors; optimum beamformers; optimum interference notch; performance sensitivity; sensitivity functions; sensors; source directions; Analytical models; Array signal processing; Covariance matrix; Degradation; Distortion; Information analysis; Interference; Navigation; Performance analysis; Sensor arrays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON '89. Fourth IEEE Region 10 International Conference

Conference_Location

Bombay

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.1989.177066

Filename

177066