Title :
A minimax near field design of broadband beamformers
Author :
Nordebo, S. ; Claesson, I. ; Nordholm, S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Signal Process., Univ. of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Ronneby, Sweden
Abstract :
A method to solve a general broadband beamformer design problem is formulated as a quadratic program. As a special ease, the minimax near field design problem of a broadband beamformer is solved as a quadratic programming formulation of the weighted Chebyshev approximation problem. An example is given that demonstrate the minimax near field behaviour of the beamformer designed. The method can also be applied to the design of multidimensional digital FIR filters with an arbitrarily specified amplitude and phase.<>
Keywords :
Chebyshev approximation; FIR filters; antenna radiation patterns; array signal processing; minimax techniques; multidimensional digital filters; quadratic programming; broadband beamformers; minimax near field design; quadratic programming; weighted Chebyshev approximation; Chebyshev approximation; Computational Intelligence Society; Finite impulse response filter; Linear programming; Minimax techniques; Multidimensional signal processing; Multidimensional systems; Quadratic programming; Signal design; Signal processing algorithms;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 1994. AP-S. Digest
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2009-3
DOI :
10.1109/APS.1994.407821
