• DocumentCode
    1899388
  • Title

    Adaptive beamforming for arbitrary array by particle swarm optimization

  • Author

    Wei Cui ; Yilong Lu

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    2-5 Feb. 2015
  • Firstpage
    79
  • Lastpage
    80
  • Abstract
    Adaptive beamforming is critical in high performance radar and wireless communications applications. This paper presents a study of adaptive beamforming for arbitrary array by applying the powerful and versatile particle swarm optimization (PSO). Numerical experiments for sidelobe suppression, nulling, null steering and array failure correction have demonstrated that the presented PSO approach is effective for adaptive beamforming.
  • Keywords
    array signal processing; particle swarm optimisation; adaptive beamforming; arbitrary array; array failure correction; null steering; nulling; particle swarm optimization; radar; sidelobe suppression; wireless communications; Antenna arrays; Array signal processing; Arrays; Chebyshev approximation; Educational institutions; Genetic algorithms; Particle swarm optimization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Electromagnetics (ICCEM), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Hong Kong
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/COMPEM.2015.7052562
  • Filename
    7052562