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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2017, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (6): 320752-320752.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2016.0312

• Electronics and Electrical Engineering and Control • Previous Articles     Next Articles

A robust beamformer with a polarization sensitive array and polarization estimation

YU Xiang, LI Dan, ZHANG Jianqiu   

  1. Department of Electronic Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
  • Received:2016-09-05 Revised:2016-11-24 Online:2017-06-15 Published:2016-12-08
  • Supported by:

    National Natural Science Foundation of China (61571131)

Abstract:

Based on the polarization sensitive array, a robust beamformer for polarization estimation is proposed. By reformulating the model for polarization sensitive array data, a model decoupling the direction of arrival (DOA) parameters from the polarization ones is given. Based on our model and the robust constraints to the two polarization directions of a signal, a spatial beamspace matrix is designed to robustly obtain an estimation of the signal's two polarization components. The polarization parameter estimations of the signal are then given by the eigenvalue decomposition. Both analyses and simulation results show that our beamformer is robust to the array mismatch caused by the DOA estimate and array position errors. It is also indicated that our method can improve the performance of the polarization estimation effectively by suppressing the interference and noise are suppressed.

Key words: array signal processing, polarization estimation, beamforming, robustness, convex optimization, eigenvalue decomposition

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