An evolutive algorithm for blind adaptive beamforming in GPS applications

In this work we propose an alternative approach to the problem of digital beamforming. We employ an evolutive algorithm, named opt-aiNet, to optimize the directed-decision (DD) criterion, a well-known equalization criterion, in order to determine the optimal coefficients of the antenna array. The approach is applied to a GPS application scenario, where the multimodal search capability of the opt-aiNet algorithm is used to simultaneously find the coefficient vectors that capture the signals coming from all the visible satellites