An adaptive nulling system for a narrow-band signal with a look-direction constraint utilizing the conjugate gradient method

The problem of iterative adjustments of the weights of a phased array with a look-direction constraint in the presence of jammers is presented. The technique described uses the adaptive conjugate method instead of the popularly used method of steepest descent to eliminate the jammer components, thus minimizing the error between the received signal and the actual one. This iterative method minimized the L/sub 2/ norm (the mean square error) and is guaranteed to converge in a finite number of steps which is not available for the present techniques utilized to solve this problem. Improvement in rate of convergence is thus achieved at the expense of algorithmic complexity.<>