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The location-estimating, null-steering (LENS) algorithm for adaptive microphone-array processing

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Desloge, Joseph Gilles
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William M. Rabinowitz.
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This document develops and evaluates the Location-Estimating, Null-Steering (LENS) algorithm for adaptive array beamforming in the case of a. known target location. Such beamformers are useful in spatial-filtering applications that enhance a desired target source while attenuating non-target, jammer sources in a given environment. Although LENS is designed for general beamforming purposes, this document em­phasizes the use of LENS to create a background-noise-reducing hearing aid. LENS processing is innovative in that it uses a novel robustness-control mechanism to yield a beamformer that avoids target cancellation under adverse conditions. Most traditional beamforming systems realize robustness control through the use of con­straints in the beamforming optimization, which is an approach that is both indirect and difficult to understand. LENS, on the other hand, achieves direct and obvious ro­bustness control by separating robustness control from the beamforming optimization in the following two-step procedure: first it solves a minima.By-constrained beamform­ing optimization in terms of the LENS parameter set [beta]_oct , and then it evaluates and ... The advantages of LENS processing are not limited to improved system robust­ness, however. Its design allows implementation using a relaxation-based approx­imation to direct-solution LENS procGssing (the LENS equiwdent of direct covari­ance matrix inversion processing for traditional systems). Simulations demonstrate that this relaxation-based implementation can combine efficient implementation, fast beamformer adaptation, and good beamforming performance, which is difficult to achieve with traditional systems.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-221).
 
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1998
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9606
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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