Adaptive Processing for Antenna Arrays

Abstract

The report reviews the background of adaptive arrays and formulates the basic structure of the array and environment under consideration. Appropriate performance criteria and the derivation of the associated optimal solutions are presented. For very narrowband problems it is shown that the solutions differ only by a scalar gain, and thus have the same output signal-to- noise ratios. Iterative-adaptive computation procedures are then presented, from which it is obvious that a stochastic approximation-steepest gradient algorithm is best suited for real-time arrays. Within the context of this background, the adaptive algorithms which have been presented previously are discussed and compared. From this analysis it is obvious that the most promising algorithms are essentially equivalent. The behavior of the basic LMS type algorithm is analyzed, primarily by the solution of the associated differential equations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0748220

Entities

People

  • Charles A. Baird Jr.
  • Charles L. Zahm
  • G. Patrick Martin
  • George G. Rassweiler

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Angle Of Arrival
  • Antenna Arrays
  • Antenna Radiation Patterns
  • Antennas
  • Bandwidth
  • Computational Science
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Geometry
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Operations Research
  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Systems Analysis and Design