RESEARCH ARTICLE


The Trapezoidal Method of Steepest-Descent and its Application to Adaptive Filtering



T. J. Moir*
School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University at Albany, Auckland, New-Zealand


© 2010 T.J. Moir.

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Abstract

The method of steepest-descent is re-visited in continuous time. It is shown that the continuous time version is a vector differential equation the solution of which is found by integration. Since numerical integration has many forms, we show an alternative to the conventional solution by using a Trapezoidal integration solution. This in turn gives a slightly modified least-mean squares (LMS) algorithm.

Keywords: Steepest-Descent, Least-mean squares (LMS), Adaptive filters.