ROBUST ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMER USING INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUE FOR CONFORMAL ANTENNA ARRAY

Robust Adaptive Beamformer Using Interpo- Lation Technique for Conformal Antenna Array

A novel robust adaptive beamforming method for conformal array is proposed. By using interpolation technique, the cylindrical conformal array with directional antenna elements is transformed to a virtual uniform linear array with omni-directional elements. This method can compensate the amplitude and mutual coupling errors as well as desired signal point errors of the conformal array efficientl...

Adaptive Detection and Estimation Using a Conformal Array Antenna

Constrained Beamformer Optimization for Adaptive Antenna Arrays

Digital beamforming algorithms are commonly used for spatial filtering which effectively result in more benign channel characterestics with reduced interference and delay spread. A new constrained beamforming (CBF) algorithm is presented which allows optimum beam steering and interference cancellation for arbitrarily spaced directions The proposed CBF combines the properties of the Bartlett and...

A New On-Line/Off-Line Adaptive Antenna Array Beamformer for Tracking the Mobile Targets

An adaptive antenna array system adjusts the main lobe of radiation pattern in the direction of desired signal and points the nulls in the direction of undesired signals or interferers. The essential goal of beamforming is to reduce the complexity of weighting process and to decrease the time needed for adjusting the antenna radiation pattern. In this article a new adaptive weighting algorithm ...

Phased array antenna using MEMS phase shifter

This article presents a phased array antenna employing MEMS phase shifter. The proposed phased array antenna consists of eight square patch antennas operating at 10.4 GHz with a bandwidth of 400 MHz. Feed line for each patch passes through a MEMS phase shifter realized by a series of bridges above the transmission line. The distance between the bridge and the transmission line underneath it is ...