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6.456 Adaptive Array Processing

Fall 2009

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Response pattern of an 18x95 element rectangular array, custom designed using array processing techniques.

Instructor: James Preisig

TA: Jonathan Paul Kitchens

Lecture: M9.30-12.30 (1-273)
Office Hours (instructor): M12.40-1.15 (5-213)
Office Hours (TA): Th3.30-4.30 (5-213)

Information:

Topics Covered:

Space-time random processes, beamforming, directivity, sensitivity and white noise gain metrics. Classical pattern shaping, 2D arrays, deterministic design for sidelobe control and nulling. Adaptive array processing, design of large arrays and the "snapshot limit" problem, directional spectra estimation, sample matrix inversion (SMI) and recursive algorithms, synthetic aperture arrays, space-time adaptive systems, direction of arrival (DOA) algorithms, matched field processing and back propagation methods for range dependent environments. Applications in radar, sonar, communications and seismic array systems.

Course Text:

The course text is "Optimum Array Processing" by Harry Van Trees. Errata pages for this text can be downloaded from
http://gunston.gmu.edu/demt/oap/errata.htm. The material in this book will be supplemented by reading notes and journal articles.

Announcements

Change in TA office hours

Beginning next week (the week of 9/28/2009), my TA office hour will change to Thursdays from 3:30-4:30pm in the same room (5-213). Feel free to stop by if you have any questions.

Announced on 23 September 2009 6:15 p.m. by Jonathan Paul Kitchens

Lab #1 due 9/28/2009

As Prof. Preisig mentioned in class, you have an extra week to do the Lab assignment in PSet #1. It will now be due before class on Monday, 9/28/2009. The other (non-Lab) problems are still due before class on 9/21/2009.

Announced on 15 September 2009 8:33 a.m. by Jonathan Paul Kitchens