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Academic Journal of Computing & Information Science, 2020, 3(4); doi: 10.25236/AJCIS.2020.030406.

A Blind Calibration Algorithm of DOA Estimation for Uniform Antenna Array

Author(s)

Han Cui1, Sibo Huang2, *

Corresponding Author:
Sibo Huang
Affiliation(s)

1 School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Huizhou University, Huizhou 516007, China
2 Network and Information Center, Huizhou University, Huizhou 516007, China
*Corresponding author

Abstract

The errors of antenna array element position and orientation affect phase and gain of received array signal, respectively. Direction of arrival (DOA) algorithm based on eigenvalue decomposition is very sensitive to gain/phrase errors of array signal. Thus, it is necessary to correct the gain/phrase errors of array signal. Considering uniform linear antenna array model, this paper proposes a “blind” calibration algorithm. It estimates array’s gains and phases errors using the subspace method, no needing known reference signals. DOA of the incident signal and error parameters are estimated separately using iterative approach. The simulation results show that its convergent rate is fast and its convergent precision is high.

Keywords

array antenna, gain/phase errors, subspace principle, calibration

Cite This Paper

Han Cui, Sibo Huang. A Blind Calibration Algorithm of DOA Estimation for Uniform Antenna Array. Academic Journal of Computing & Information Science (2020), Vol. 3, Issue 4: 50-56. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJCIS.2020.030406.

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