A robust generalized sidelobe canceller with a blocking matrix using leaky adaptive filters

Abstract

A new robust generalized sidelobe canceller structure suited to adaptive microphone arrays is proposed. In the proposed structure, the blocking matrix incorporates leaky adaptive filters whose input signals are the output of the fixed beamformer. The leaky adaptive filters alleviate the influence of phase error, which results in the robustness. Undesirable target-signal cancellation is avoided in the presence of array imperfections such as target-direction error and microphone-position error. The proposed structure can pick up a target signal with little distortion when the error in the sight direction from the target direction is large. It can be implemented with a small number of microphones. Simulations demonstrate that the proposed structure, designed to allow 20° directional error, reduces interference by more than 18 dB. © 1997 Scripta Technica, Inc. Electron Comm Jpn Pt 3, 80(8): 56–65, 1997