Adaptive Signal Processing

Bernard Widrow

Supervisor
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdelazim Mohamed
By
Eng. Mohammed Fathi Albrawy
Q: Define Adaptive Automaton? (P.3)

Q: What is the function of adaptive Gain Control (AGC)? (P.3)

Q: What are the characteristics of Adaptive Systems? (P.4)

Q: Illustrate the Difference between open-loop and closed-loop

Adaptation with aid of figures? (P.6,7)
 Figure 1: Open-Loop adaptation

Figure 2: Closed-Loop adaptation

Q: Define Adaptive Linear Combiner? (P.15)

Q: What is the general form of adaptive linear combiner? (P.16)

Q: Why adaptive combiner is called Linear? (P.15)

Q: What we mean by adaptive transversal filter? (P.16)

Q: Introduce an example to help clarify the concepts of quadratic

performance surface, gradient and mean square error? (P.21,22)
Q: What are the properties of Eigenvalues? (P.36)

Q: Given:
Determine the Normalized
Eigenvectors? (P.41,42,43)
Solution
Q: Drive a mathematical expression for variance of the gradient
estimate? (P.71,72,74,75)

Q: Define excess mean-square error? (P.87)

Q: Define misadjustment in an adaptive process? (P.110)

Q: Write down the advantages of LMS algorithm? (P.112)

Q: Express the Frequency response of the following figure:

(P.120,121,122)

Solution
Q: Drive an expression for the performance surface in the following
figure: (P.135,136,137)

Solution
Q: list Advantages of adaptive IIF filters over FIR filters?
 It generalizes FIR filter and it can model IIR system more accurately
 Less filter coefficients are generally required
Q: why RLS provides a faster convergence speed than the LMS?
 RLS is an approximation of the Newton method while LMS is an approximation of
the steepest descent method.
 The pre-multiplication of R(n)-1 in the RLS algorithm makes the resultant eigenvalue
spread becomes unity.