Frequency invariant beamforming for two-dimensional and three-dimensional arrays

Signal Processing

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2535-2543

  Liu, Wei ^a   Weiss, Stephan ^b   McWhirter, John G ^c   Proudler, Ian K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 D arrays; Fourier transform; Frequency invariant beamforming; Linear arrays; Planar arrays

Indexed keywords

3-D ARRAYS; FREQUENCY INVARIANT BEAMFORMING; LINEAR ARRAYS; PLANAR ARRAYS;

BEAMFORMING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ARRAY PROCESSING;

EID: 34447273148     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2007.03.018     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Van Trees H.L. Optimum Array Processing, Part IV of Detection, Estimation, and Modulation Theory (2002), Wiley, New York, USA
2. M.S. Brandstein, D. Ward (Eds.), Microphone Arrays: Signal Processing Techniques and Applications, Springer, Berlin, 2001.
3. Ghavami M., Michael L.B., and Kohno R. Ultra Wideband Signals and Systems in Communication Engineering (2004), Wiley, Chichester, England
4. Smith R. Constant beamwidth receiving arrays for broad band sonar systems. Acustica 23 (1970) 21-26
5. Hixson E.L., and Au K.T. Wide-bandwidth constant beamwidth acoustic array. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 48 1 (July 1970) 117
6. Doles III J.H., and Benedict F.D. Broad-band array design using the asymptotic theory of unequally spaced arrays. IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag. 36 (January 1988) 27-33
7. M.M. Goodwin, G.W. Elko, Constant beamwidth beamforming, in: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 1, Minneapolis, USA, April 1993, pp. 169-172.
8. T. Chou, Frequency-independent beamformer with low response error, in: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 5, Detroit, USA, May 1995, pp. 2995-2998.
9. Ward D.B., Kennedy R.A., and Williamson R.C. Theory and design of broadband sensor arrays with frequency invariant far-field beam patterns. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97 2 (February 1995) 1023-1034
10. Ward D.B., Kennedy R.A., and Williamson R.C. Fir filter design for frequency invariant beamformers. IEEE Signal Process. Lett. 3 (March 1996) 69-71
11. Weiss S., Stewart R.W., and Liu W. A broadband adaptive beamformer in subbands with scaled aperture. Proceedings of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers. Monterey, CA (November 2002) 1298-1302
12. Sekiguchi T., and Karasawa Y. Wideband beamspace adaptive array utilizing FIR fan filters for multibeam forming. IEEE Trans. Signal Process. 48 1 (January 2000) 277-284
13. Liu W., and Weiss S. Design of frequency-invariant beamformers employing multi-dimensional Fourier transforms. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Multidimensional (nD) Systems (NDS). Wuppertal, Germany (July 2005) 19-23