Christopher Hogstrom (@GrittyEngineer)

Christopher is the founder of GrittyEngineer.com. He graduated from BYU with both his bachelor's and master's in electrical engineering with an emphasis in digital communications. Since graduating he has been very interested in the field of adaptive beamforming and its many applications.

Adaptive Beamforming is like Squeezing a Water Balloon

Christopher Hogstrom ● January 9, 2021●4 comments

Adaptive beamforming was first developed in the 1960s for radar and sonar applications. The main idea is that signals can be captured using multiple sensors and the sensor outputs can be combined to enhance the signals propagating from specific directions and attenuate (null out) signals from other directions. It has grown immensely in recent years as processors have become faster and cheaper. Today, adaptive beamforming applications include smart speakers (like the Amazon Echo),...

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