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Sensors 2012, 12, 12424-12436; doi:10.3390/s120912424 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article A Nonlinear Adaptive Beamforming Algorithm Based on Least Squares Support Vector Regression Lutao Wang 1,*, Gang Jin 2, Zhengzhou Li 3 and Hongbin Xu 1 1 School of Automation Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China; E-Mail: hbxu@ 2 China Aerodynamics Research Development Center, Mianyang 621000, China; E-Mail: gjin@ 3 School of Communication, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China; E-Mail: lizhengzhou@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: wltuestc@163.com; Tel./Fax: +86-28-6183-1819. Received: 28 July 2012; in revised form: 21 August 2012 / Accepted: 30 August 2012 / Published: 12 September 2012 Abstract: To overcome the performance degradation in the presence of steering vector mismatches, strict restrictions on the number of available snapshots, and numerous interferences, a novel beamforming approach based on nonlinear least-square support vector regression machine (LS-SVR) is derived in this paper. In this approach, the conventional linearly constrained minimum variance cost function used by minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer is replaced by a squared-loss function to increase robustness in complex scenarios and provide additional control over the sidelobe level. Gaus