One of the limiting factors in the performance of radar systems is the presence of mutual coupling (MC) between receive antenna elements or array imperfections, such as antenna phase and gain errors. Therefore, the data model is misspecified, resulting in high sidelobe levels in the beam pattern, low angular resolution, and biased angle estimation. In this article, we propose a blind calibration scheme for uniform planar arrays. Our method is based on multiple measurements of various scenarios, with an arbitrary and unknown number of targets-of-opportunity, unknown directions-of-arrival (DOAs), and unknown intensities. The proposed method is based on spatial smoothing and forward–backward averaging techniques, in order to identify the signal and noise subspaces. In the presence of MC or array imperfections, the signal subspace leaks into the noise subspace. The proposed method seeks to find and compensate for model misspecification using a model-order selection criterion. We evaluate the performance of our method through simulations, in terms of DOA estimation accuracy and resolution. Our results demonstrate that the DOA estimation performance after calibration with our proposed method is close to that of a perfectly calibrated array.


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    Title :

    Blind Array Calibration of Mutual Coupling, Phase, and Gain for Automotive Radar


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    Publication date :

    2024-02-01


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    3868114 byte




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    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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