Robust Direction-Finding Method for Sensor Gain and Phase Uncertainties in Non-uniform Environment

Long Yang, Yixin Yang, Guisheng Liao, Yong Wang

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Abstract

A direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation algorithm, which is robust to sensor gain and phase uncertainties for completely uncalibrated arrays in a non-uniform noise environment, is proposed in this study. As a result of the sensor gain uncertainties or the shielding effects for some baffled arrays, the noise power may vary with sensors. Therefore, a non-uniform noise model is considered. A cost function established by the orthogonality of subspaces is accumulated along several rough space intervals surrounding the real angles of sources. After analyzing the influences of rough space intervals, an iterative refinement operation is carried out to improve the estimation performance of the DOA and sensor gain and phase responses. The Cramér–Rao bounds of the DOA and sensor gain and phase in the non-uniform noise model are derived. Simulations and experimental results show the superiority of the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1943-1964
Number of pages22
JournalCircuits, Systems, and Signal Processing
Volume39
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2020

Keywords

  • Robust DOA estimation
  • Self-calibration
  • Sensor gain and phase uncertainties
  • Uncalibrated arrays

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