Array errors active calibration algorithm based on instrumental sensors

The array mutual coupling,gain-phase errors and sensor position errors would significantly degrade the performance of high-resolution direction of arrival (DOA) estimation algorithms.Aiming at the combined influences of the above three array errors,a kind of active calibration algorithm is presented with the help of instrumental sensors in this paper.Firstly,the integrated effects of the three array errors are shown to be equivalent to angularly dependent gain-phase errors.Then,a non-linear least square (LS...     

基于辅助阵元的阵列误差有源校正算法

阵列互耦、幅相误差和阵元位置误差的综合影响会严重影响超分辨率算法的性能,为此,针对上述3种阵列误差的综合影响,给出了一类基于辅助阵元的有源校正算法.首先,将3种阵列误差的综合影响等效为一种依赖方位变化的幅相误差,并通过一种基于辅助阵元的自校正方法得到了关于3种阵列误差的非线性最小二乘优化模型;然后,针对阵列误差矩阵可能出现的不同模型,给出了相应的求解算法;接着,针对算法的参数估计唯一性给出了较为细致的分析,并对算法做了进一步改进;最后,通过仿真实验验证了新算法的有效性.     

Array calibration of angularly dependent gain and phase uncertainties with carry-on instrumental sensors

Array calibration with angularly dependent gain and phase uncertainties has long been a difficult problem. Although many array calibration methods have been reported extensively in the literature, they almost all assumed an angularly independent model for array uncertainties. Few calibration methods have been developed for the angularly dependent array uncertainties. A novel and efficient auto-calibration method for angularly dependent gain and phase uncertainties is proposed in this paper, which is called ISM (Instrumental Sensors Method). With the help of a few well-calibrated instrumental sensors, the ISM is able to achieve favorable and unambiguous direction-of-arrivals (DOAs) estimate and the corresponding angularly dependent gain and phase estimate simultaneously, even in the case of multiple non-disjoint sources. Since the mutual coupling and sensor position errors can all be described as angularly dependent gain/phase uncertainties, the ISM proposed still works in the presence of a combination of     

Robustness analysis of nearfield subband beamformers in the presence of microphone gain and phase errors

Subband beamforming has found many applications in microphone array processing field, due to its advantages over the fullband counterpart. In this paper, the performance of nearfield subband beamformers for arbitrary arrays in the presence of microphone gain and phase errors is studied from the perspective of statistical analysis. Through the bias and variance analysis of array response, some insightful properties on the robustness of nearfield subband beamformers have been derived. It is shown that the robustness of nearfield subband beamformers is dependent on the source-to-array distance, i.e., the robustness will deteriorate when the source is close to microphone arrays. Moreover, the variation in sound speed, i.e., the temperature in homogeneous environments, has little effect on the robustness performance of subband beamformers. The theoretical results are further verified by several numerical examples on nearfield subband beamformers.     

基于均匀十字阵的幅相误差自校正算法

针对实际应用中普遍存在的幅相误差扰动问题,结合子空间类波达方向估计算法,基于均匀十字阵列,提出了一种幅相误差的自校正算法。均匀十字阵列可分解为两个相互垂直的均匀线性阵列,利用均匀线阵接收数据协方差矩阵的结构特点对幅相误差进行初步估计,计算出波达方向的初始估计值,通过迭代方法得到更精确的估计值,自校正方法不需要任何参数初始值,实现比较简单。仿真实验验证了算法具有良好的误差校正效果,能够比较准确地估计出信源的波达方向角和阵元的幅相误差值。