Robust adaptive beamforming using iterative adaptive approach

Zhen Meng and Weidong Zhou

Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, 2019, vol. 33, issue 4, 504-519

Abstract: The performance of traditional reconstruction-based robust adaptive beamformers may degrade when the array is not well calibrated. This performance degradation is mainly caused by the Capon spectrum estimator which can not estimate the spatial power spectrum accurately. In contrast to existing approaches, we propose two new reconstruction-based robust adaptive beamformers by using the accurate iterative adaptive approach (IAA) spectrum to combat the covariance matrix uncertainties and the steering vector mismatches. The first one employs the low-complexity IAA (IAA-LC) algorithm to obtain the interference power estimates and reconstruct the interference-plus-noise covariance matrix (INCM) with the computational complexity further reduced. The second one reconstructs the INCM by updating the power estimates corresponding to each interference steering vector with the use of knowledge-aided IAA (IAA-KA) algorithm. The desired signal steering vector is corrected by searching for the direction corresponding to the maximum power, which circumvents the use of optimization program. Simulation results show that our proposed beamformers outperform the others and can achieve the robust performance in the cases of array model mismatches.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/09205071.2018.1560366

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