... Gini A robust Capon beamformer (RCB) against the uncertainty of nominal array steering vector (ASV) is formulated in this paper. TheRCB, which can be categorized as diagonal loading approach, ... communica-tions, microphone array processing, radar, sonar and medicalimaging, and so forth. A well-studied adaptive beamformer, for example, the Capon beamformer [1], has high perfor-mance in interference ... co-variance matrix estimated using sample averaging methodasymptotically approaches the true one. In the case whereonly a small number of snapshots are available, the estimatederror in covariance matrix...