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2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Hao ◽  
Nan Zou ◽  
Guolong Liang

Capon beamforming is often applied in passive sonar to improve the detectability of weak underwater targets. However, we often have no accurate prior information of the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of the target in the practical applications of passive sonar. In this case, Capon beamformer will suffer from performance degradation due to the steering vector error dominated by large DOA mismatch. To solve this, a new robust Capon beamforming approach is proposed. The essence of the proposed method is to decompose the actual steering vector into two components by oblique projection onto a subspace and then estimate the actual steering vector in two steps. First, we estimate the oblique projection steering vector within the subspace by maximizing the output power while controlling the power from the sidelobe region. Subsequently, we search for the actual steering vector within the neighborhood of the estimated oblique projection steering vector by maximizing the output signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR). Semidefinite relaxation and Charnes-Cooper transformation are utilized to derive convex formulations of the estimation problems, and the optimal solutions are obtained by the rank-one decomposition theorem. Numerical simulations demonstrate that the proposed method can provide superior performance, as compared with several previously proposed robust Capon beamformers in the presence of large DOA mismatch and other array imperfections.


2013 ◽  
Vol 347-350 ◽  
pp. 3930-3933
Author(s):  
Hai Yan Song ◽  
Jie Shi ◽  
Bo Sheng Liu ◽  
Ye Tian ◽  
Jun Ye

Capon beamforming has better resolution and interference rejection capability. However, its performance will seriously degrade due to noise, array steering vector error, and other factors. In this paper, a robust Capon beamforming applied to a planar array is described. It is shown that the proposed method is the natural extension of the original Vector Optimization Robust Beamforming algorithm to the case of a planar array, and can be reformulated as a convex second-order cone program and solved by SEDUMI. Computer simulation has shown that the proposed method has better performance than other conventional methods, such as narrower main lobe and lower side lobe.


2011 ◽  
Vol 403-408 ◽  
pp. 2640-2644
Author(s):  
Dong Xia

For solving the problem of optimum space-time adaptive processing (STAP) under the steering vector mismatch, a robust STAP algorithm is proposed based on the concept of robust Capon beamforming. The model of the steering vector error is established, describing the uncertainty of the desired steering vector. And a new optimization criterion is formed, by which the robust weight vector is acquired. Eventually experimental results and analysis are given with simulation signals. It is verified that the presented method is insensitive to the steering vector error and has a bigger improvement factor.


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