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Abstract

In this paper, an efficient wideband array adaptive beamforming (ADBF) approach based on keystone transform is presented. In order to eliminate the aperture effect of the wideband signal, the modified keystone transform is applied to remove the time delay between different array elements. Thus, the wideband array is equivalent to the narrowband array, and the orthogonal projection matrix of the target steering vector can be used to filter the desired signal in the training samples, which avoids the signal cancellation caused in the estimation of ADBF covariance matrix. Compared with theestablished algorithm of sliding window, this approach can significantly reduce the computational burden. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method are validated through numerical simulations.

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Dr. Guodong Han