Multisource Self-Calibration for Sensor Arrays

DOI10.1109/TSP.2009.2022894zbMATH Open1391.94440arXiv1003.1892OpenAlexW2112169767MaRDI QIDQ4569855FDOQ4569855

Authors: Stefan J. Wijnholds, Alle-Jan van der Veen 

Publication date: 9 July 2018

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Calibration of a sensor array is more involved if the antennas have direction dependent gains and multiple calibrator sources are simultaneously present. We study this case for a sensor array with arbitrary geometry but identical elements, i.e. elements with the same direction dependent gain pattern. A weighted alternating least squares (WALS) algorithm is derived that iteratively solves for the direction independent complex gains of the array elements, their noise powers and their gains in the direction of the calibrator sources. An extension of the problem is the case where the apparent calibrator source locations are unknown, e.g., due to refractive propagation paths. For this case, the WALS method is supplemented with weighted subspace fitting (WSF) direction finding techniques. Using Monte Carlo simulations we demonstrate that both methods are asymptotically statistically efficient and converge within two iterations even in cases of low SNR.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1892

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12)

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