• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.115-122
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• 2017

We propose a robust adaptive beamforming algorithm for triplet array sonar. The proposed beamforming algorithm obtains robustness to mismatches, left/right discrimination, and has two steps. The first is a cardioid beamformer, which supports left/right discrimination of target signals. It applies the conventional delay-and-subtract to each triplet's signal with its rotation angle and obtains multiple cardioid beams. The second is a robust adaptive beamforming to minimize nearby interferences. We regard cardioid beams as input signals of a line array and apply an adaptive beamforming algorithm to the cardioid beams. Simulations results show that the proposed algorithm provides significantly better performance than the conventional algorithms, while supporting left/right discrimination of target signals.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.424-434
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• 2015

Adaptive beamforming algorithms have been widely used to remove interference and jamming in the phased array radar system. Advances in the field programmable gate array(FPGA) technology now make possible the real time processing of adaptive beamforming (ABF) algorithm. In this paper, the FPGA based real-time implementation method of adaptive beamforming system(beamformer) in the pre-processor module for active electronically scanned array(AESA) radar is proposed. A compact FPGA-based adaptive beamformer is developed using commercial off the shelf(COTS) FPGA board with communication via OpenVPX(Virtual Path Cross-connect) backplane. This beamformer comprises a number of high speed complex processing including QR decomposition & back substitution for matrix inversion and complex vector/matrix calculations. The implemented result shows that the adaptive beamforming patterns through FPGA correspond with results of simulation through Matlab. And also confirms the possibility of application in AESA radar due to the real time processing of ABF algorithm through FPGA.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.179-190
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• 2020

In this paper, we estimated the Direction of Arrival (DOA) using Conventional BeamForming (CBF), adaptive beamforming and compressive beamforming. Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) and Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) are used as the adaptive beamforming, and grid-free compressive sensing is applied for the compressive sensing beamforming. Theoretical background and limitations of each technique are introduced, and the performance of each technique is compared through simulation and real experiments. The real experiments are conducted in the presence of reflected signal, transmitting a sound using two speakers and receiving acoustic data through a linear array consisting of eight microphones. Simulation and experimental results show that the adaptive beamforming and the grid-free compressive beamforming have a higher resolution than conventional beamforming when there are uncorrelated signals. On the other hand, the performance of the adaptive beamforming is degraded by the reflected signals whereas the grid-free compressive beamforming still improves the conventional beamforming resolution regardless of reflected signal presence.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.66-72
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose an adaptive beamforming algorithm of triplet arrays for active sonar systems. The proposed algorithm consists of three steps: matched filters, cardioid beamforming, and line array beamforming. First, we apply a matched filter of a transmitted pulse to received individual sensor signals and obtain filterd signals. Then, we perform the fast Fourier transform to the matched filter results, and make a cardioid beam for each triplet data, respectively. Finally, we apply an adaptive beamforming by assuming that the cardioid beams are input signals of a line array. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm provides better performances than conventional algorithms.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.45-52
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• 1990

본 논문에서는 원하는 방향에 대해서 선형 위상 응답 특성을 갖는 적응 빔 형성기에 대해서 설 명한다. 본 논문에서는 제안하는 빔 형성기는 원하는 신호에 대해서 선형 위상 응답 특성을 얻기 위해 전방 적응 빔 형성기와 후방 적응 빔 형성기를 이용한다. 두 빔 형성기의 각각의 출력 신호를 합하여 원하는 신호를 얻는다. TDL 필터 계수는 가상신호와 출력 신호간의 차이 값의 파워가 최소가 되도록 조정된다. 원하는 방향에 대한 빔 형성기의 임펄스 응답이 중심 샘플에 대해서 대칭이 되도록 원하는 방향에서 입사되는 신호에 대한 선형 위상 응답 특성을 얻을 수 있다. 출력 잡음 분산을 최소로 하는 반면 원하는 신호 방향에 대한 주파수 응답의 왜곡을 미리 정한 허용치보다 작게 함으로써 음성 신호 를 향상시키는 AMNOR 시스템에 본 논문에서 제안한 빔 형성기를 적용하여 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 결과 를 제시한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.145-153
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• 2019

Adaptive beamforming methods are known to suppress sidelobes and improve detection performance of weak signal by constructing weight vectors depending on the received signal itself. A standard adaptive beamforming like the MVDR (Minimum Variance Distortionless Response) is very sensitive to mismatches between weight vectors and actual signal steering vectors. Also, a large computational complexity for estimating a stable covariance matrix is required when wideband beamforming for a large-scale array is used. In this paper, we exploit the WBRCB (Wideband Robust Capon Beamforming) method for stable and robust wideband adaptive beamforming of a passive large uniform line array sonar. To improve robustness of adaptive beamforming performance in the presence of mismatches, we extract a optimum mismatch parameter. WBRCB with extracted mismatch parameter shows performance improvement in beamforming using synthetic and experimental passive sonar signals.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.30 no.8
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• pp.474-481
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• 2011

Conventional beamforming is ineffective in producing directional information in system with sparse degree of the freedom such as DIFAR (DIrectional Frequency Analysis and Recording) sonobuoy and in the presence of high directional noise. In this paper, Adaptive beamforming techniques are applied to produce directional spectra from a small number of sensors in highly directional noise environment. Conventional method as well as minimum variance and eigenvectors as adaptive method are evaluated via numerical test and real data.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.77-80
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• 2001

최근에 cdma2000-lx 시스템의 역방향에 파일럿 채널이 추가되면서 적은 계산량으로 구현이 가능한 LMS 빔 형성 기법이 연구되고 있다. 그러나 기존의 LMS 빔 형성 방식의 경우 무선 페이딩 채널에 적응하기 위하여 고정된 step-sire parameter를 이용하였다. 하지만 이러한 고정된 step-size parameter를 사용할 경우 MSE가 증가하여 좋은 성능을 얻을 수 없다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 LMS 순 방향 빔 형성 기법에서 채널을 추정하여 추정된 채널과 LMS 가중치의 오차에 적응하는 step-size parameter를 결정함으로써 적은 MSE만으로 가중치 값을 추정하는 CA-LMS(Channel Adaptive Least Mean Square) 방식을 이용한 순방향 빔 형성 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 방식에 대하여 cdma2000-lx 환경에서 다양한 페이딩 환경에 적용하여 제안한 방식이 우수함을 확인 할 수 있다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.587-592
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• 2018

An adaptive beam forming system using a phased array antenna improves communication quality by beam forming adaptively to a communication environment having an interference signal. For adaptive beam forming, a good combination of the phases of the excited signals to each radiating element of the phased array antenna should be calculated. In this paper, improved particle swarm optimization algorithm that adds a re-spreading procedure according to particle density was proposed to increase the probability of good phase shift combination output.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.8
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• pp.53-60
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• 2013

In this paper, the new multi-beamforming is proposed for Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Multicarrier-Code division multiple access(MC-CDMA) systems to overcome the decrease of performance due to multiuser interference and multiple-antenna interference. Installing the number of multi-beamformer which is equal to the number of multi-transmitter antennas and exploiting the proposed approach at the receiver of MIMO MC-CDMA, the multi-beams are formed toward each multi-antenna of desired user and null beam are formed to other interference. Therefore, the performance of MIMO MC-CDMA system is improved as removing the interference signal. BER performance improvement is investigated through computer simulation by the proposed approach to MIMO MC-CDMA system.