Design of robust superdirective arrays with a tunable tradeoff between directivity and frequency-invariance

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2169-2181

  Crocco, Marco ^a   Trucco, Andrea ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beamforming robustness; broadband beamforming; filter and sum beamforming; frequency invariant beam patterns; microphone arrays; superdirective arrays

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND BEAMFORMING; FILTER-AND-SUM BEAMFORMING; FREQUENCY-INVARIANT BEAM PATTERNS; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; SUPERDIRECTIVE ARRAYS;

DESIGN; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MICROPHONES; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 79954466170     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2011.2106780     Document Type: Article

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