Design and Development of Adaptive

Wideband Beamforming Algorithms

using Multisensor Data Fusion for
Smart phone applicaitons
Prasanth B L
Post Graduate Student
CARE IIT Delhi

Guided by
Prof Arun Kumar

Prof Rajendar Bahl

Prof I N Kar

Angle of Interference changing from 30 to 20

Angle of Interference changing from 45 to 30
Input SINR is 0 dB
No of Sensors :4
No of Tap Delay Lines
: 16
Step Size : 0.1
50 Trials

 The optimum solution for MVDR is

The constraint matrix is formed as

g is the response FIR response vector of order M-1, since it is distortion less we use an
all pass filter
If it is for other desired factor, then a dependeny in frequency will come into picture due
to the steering vector
In order to get a better beamsteering we have to implement Fractional delay filter for
each sensor

Fractional
Delay Filter
for
Beamsteeri
ng

Steps to determine the Interference

direction from
The interference information could be obtained from the
converged weight vectors
The inverse of the beam pattern function is obtained
and the angle at which the peak occurs is found out ,
that will approximately give as the interference
direction
Since the signal is broadband and the beampattern
generated is not same for all the frequency, the
accuracy of the interference determination will depend
on the frequency which we are choosing

Lookup Table based approach for beamforming to

handle the Orientation Change
Obtain the Proximity sensor reading such that the smart phone is most
probably close to the ear
This ensures the speaker is closer to the array and the interference are most
probably far away. That the speaker DOA will not change much with respect to
the orientation change
Option 1: Then a lookup table with Weight vectors for different interference
direction and source direction at broadsided is created using the Adaptive
algorithm and stored in the memory
Option 2: LCMV based double constraint with information of the interference
direction, the optimal solution will be found out in the runtime using the fixed
optimum beamformer solution
It is our assumption that the Interference noise is at a longer distance from the
microphone array, the amount of shift to the interference has to be determined
by that distance

Input to a
single
microphon
e after
presteering
+
Output of
the
beamforme
r

Some
Residual
Interferen
ce

Energy

Estimate
how close
the
Interferen
ce is

MOVING TARGET BEAMFORMING BASED ON

BAYESIAN METHOD

A particle filter is used to solve the a posteriori

distribution of target DOA by using a motion model and
observation equation
After obtaining the posterior probability distribution ,
the Weight vector for the MVDR case has been found
just like the KL Bayesian approach