• 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.35 no.5
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• pp.395-402
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• 2016

In this paper, a wideband adaptive beamforming approach for an acoustic vector sensor linear array is presented. It is a very important issue to estimate the stable covariance matrix for adaptive beamforming. In the conventional wideband adaptive beamforming based on coherent signal-subspace (CSS) processing, the error of bearing estimates is resulted from the focusing matrix estimation and the large number of data snapshot is necessary. To alleviate the estimation error and snapshot deficiency in estimating covariance matrix, the steered covariance matrix method in the pressure sensor is extended to the vector sensor array, and the subarray technique is incorporated. By this technique, more accurate azimuth estimates and a stable covariance matrix can be obtained with a small number of data snapshot. Through simulation, the azimuth estimation performance of the proposed beamforming method and a wideband adaptive beamforming based on CSS processing are assessed.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.62 no.3
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• pp.380-386
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• 2013

This paper represents an adaptive beamforming technique to suppress interference or jamming signals in wideband. In order to maintain low side lobe level(SLL) at an antenna element level, Taylor-weighting was used. Also, to make a nulling beam pattern toward jammer's directions in wideband, we used the modified Loaded Sample Matrix Inversion(LSMI) algorithm and Tapped Delay Line(TDL). To verify the proposed algorithm, we applied it to a rectangular array antenna. Finally, the results show beam pattern with low SLL and jammers suppression.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.87-91
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• 2008

In this paper, the adaptive chirp beamforming method is proposed to solve the bias problem in the direction-of-arrivals (DOAs) estimation of the wideband chirp signals which have an identical time-frequency parameter and are emanated from different directions. The source location bias results from the interferences impinging on the array from the other directions. The proposed method exploits the time-frequency structure of the chirp signal based on STMV (STeered Minimum Valiance) to improve the DOA estimation performance by minimizing the chirp interferences effectively. Simulation results show the DOA estimation performance achieved by the proposed method as compared to the conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.459-462
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• 2004

간섭신호가 광대역이거나 빠르게 기동할 경우 기존의 협대역 적응 빔형성(NABF: Narrowband Adaptive Beam-forming)기법의 성능이 크게 저하되는 것으로 알려져 있다. 이는 간섭신호가 빠르게 기동할 경우 추정된 빔패턴의 널(null)을 벗어나게 되고 협대역을 가정하여 얻어진 빔패턴의 널은 광대역 신호일 경우 이를 효과적으로 제거할 수 없기 때문이다. 이러한 환경에서 견실한 성능을 얻기 위해 NABF 기법에 미분제한조건을 주어 간섭신호 방향의 널 폭을 넓히는 기법이 알려져 있다. 본 논문에서는 광대역의 기동하는 간섭신호에 보다 견실하게 대처하기 위해 광대역 적응 빔형성 (WABF: Wideband Adaptive Beamforming)기법에 미분제한 조건을 적용하였다. 그리고 빠르게 기동하는 광대역 간섭신호가 존재하는 환경에서 모의실험을 수행하여 제안한 기법과 기존의 NABF기법 성능을 비교한다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.53 no.6
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• pp.446-452
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• 2004

Under the condition of a common narrowband target signal and interference signals from several directions, the linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) method using the generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) for adaptive beamforming has been exploited successfully However, in the case of wideband signals, the length of the adaptive filter must be extended. As a result, the complexity of the beamformer increases, which makes real-time implementation difficult. In this paper, we improve the convergence characteristics of the adaptive filter using the transform domain normalized least mean square (NLMS) approach based on the subband GSC structure without the increase of complexity. Besides, the M-MAX algorithm, which is one of various selective coefficient updating methods, is employed in order to remarkably reduce the computational cost without decreasing the convergence quality. With the combination of these methods, we propose a computationally efficient wideband adaptive beamformer and verify its efficiency through a series of simulations.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.51-57
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• 2020

For the purpose of development of anti-jamming GPS receiver we have developed an anti-jamming algorithm and its Simulink implementation model. The algorithm used here is a form of Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) filter which is well known as an effective way to remove wideband jamming signals. We have chosen Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) block-adaptive beamforming algorithm for our development since it can provide relatively fast convergence speed to reach optimal weights, stable and high suppression capability on various types of jamming signals. We will show modeling results for this MVDR type adaptive beamformer and some simulation results. We also show the integrity of the demodulated satellite signals and the accuracy of resulting navigation solutions after anti-jamming operation.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.6-11
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• 2016

In this paper, we have analyzed the effects of co-channel, adjacent-channel, and the human shield(Body Blockage) for wideband WLAN based on the IEEE802.11n 40MHz channel bandwidth required for high speed digital signage service. Simulation results show that wideband WLAN can be operated with 78 interferers over 63m distance in co- channel, 80 interferer over 61m distance in adjacent channel. By applying the mitigation method for reducing the interference, we have confirmed that protection distance is improved to 51m using beamforming, and 40m using cognitive radio in co-channel interference. Also body blockage interference is reduced using adaptive channel bandwidth, C/I ratio, beamforming, power control mitigation methodology.