Design of Digital Filters and Arrays of Sensors.

Abstract

A numerical method is presented for designing digital filters. The method allows one to minimize the mean-square error or noise power over some intervals of frequency, while simultaneously constraining the maximum error in other intervals of frequency. Thus, for example, one can minimize noise power from a stop band of frequencies while constraining signal fidelity in a passband of frequencies, by limiting the maximum pass-band deviation. Examples are presented of the results of an algorithm, based on linear programming, for improving beam patterns of an array of sensors. Both weighting coefficients and element locations are changed, and the objective is to minimize the maximum sidelobe, subject to a constraint in the look direction. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 15, 1975
Accession Number
ADA019462

Entities

People

  • D. W. Tufts
  • James T. Lewis
  • Richard Murphy
  • William Cooper

Organizations

  • University of Rhode Island

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Coefficients
  • Computer Programming
  • Digital Filters
  • Filters
  • Frequency
  • Heuristic Methods
  • Intervals
  • Linear Programming
  • Mathematics
  • Reliability
  • Sidelobes

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

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