Non-sensitive adaptive beamforming against mutual coupling

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The standard Capon beamformer (SCB) is known to suffer from severe performance degradation when there is a mismatch between the presumed signal steering vector and the actual one. There may be several reasons leading to this result such as mutual coupling between array elements. The problem of adaptive beamforming in the presence of mutual coupling is studied based on a uniform linear array (ULA). By setting a group of auxiliary elements on each side of the ULA, the authors prove that the proposed method can inherently compensate the effect caused by the mutual coupling and greatly decrease the sensitivity of the SCB against mutual coupling. This technique can also be applied to most of the existing robust beamforming methods to further improve their performances. Theoretical analysis and simulation results demonstrate the robustness and effectiveness of this technique.

Inspec keywords: array signal processing; AWGN; Gaussian distribution

Other keywords: uniform linear array; mutual coupling; additive white Gaussian noise distribution; standard Capon beamformer; signal steering vector; nonsensitive adaptive beamforming

Subjects: Signal processing and detection; Other topics in statistics; Signal processing theory; Other topics in statistics

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