Sensor array steady adaptive beamforming method

The invention provides a sensor array steady adaptive beamforming method comprising the following steps: using array observation data covariance matrix to calculate orientation vector; calculating array observation data space power spectrum according a sample covariance matrix and the orientation vector; determining an orientation section of desired signals and interference signals according to a spectrum peak position of the space power spectrum; averaging space power spectrums outside the orientation section, and calculating an average noise power; using a convex optimization method to obtain reconstructed a signal covariance matrix and an interference plus noise covariance matrix; calculating a product matrix of the said two matrixes, and using the feature vectors corresponding to the maximum feature value to obtain beamforming device factors. The method can effectively solve the performance saturation problems in the adaptive beamforming process, so the adaptive beamforming is high in stability, and easy to be applied.

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