Incoherent Synthesis of Sparse Arrays for Frequency-Invariant Beamforming

Frequency-invariant beamformers are used to prevent signal waveform distortions in real world applications like audio, underwater acoustics, and radar. Most of existing methods assume uniform arrays, and only few consider sparse designs, which may lead to higher performance in terms of robustness an...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE/ACM transactions on audio, speech, and language processing speech, and language processing, 2019-03, Vol.27 (3), p.482-495
Hauptverfasser: Buchris, Yaakov, Amar, Alon, Benesty, Jacob, Cohen, Israel
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Zusammenfassung:Frequency-invariant beamformers are used to prevent signal waveform distortions in real world applications like audio, underwater acoustics, and radar. Most of existing methods assume uniform arrays, and only few consider sparse designs, which may lead to higher performance in terms of robustness and directivity factor. We propose an incoherent approach that first determines for each frequency bin a sparse set of sensors positions. Subsequently, by using tools of dimensionality reduction and clustering, these selections are merged together yielding the optimal sensors on a sparse array layout. We present design examples of sparse linear and planar superdirective array designs. We show that the proposed incoherent sparse design obtains superior performance in terms of white noise gain, directivity factor, and computational load compared to a uniform array design and compared to a coherent sparse approach, where the sensors' locations and the beamformer coefficients are optimized simultaneously for all frequencies.
ISSN:2329-9290
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DOI:10.1109/TASLP.2018.2881536