Deep unfolded amplitude-phase error self-calibration network for DOA estimation

doi:10.23919/JSEE.2024.000099

Abstract

Abstract: To tackle the challenges of intractable parameter tuning, significant computational expenditure and imprecise model-driven sparse-based direction of arrival (DOA) estimation with array error (AE), this paper proposes a deep unfolded amplitude-phase error self-calibration network. Firstly, a sparse-based DOA model with an array convex error restriction is established, which gets resolved via an alternating iterative minimization (AIM) algorithm. The algorithm is then unrolled to a deep network known as AE-AIM Network (AE-AIM-Net), where all parameters are optimized through multi-task learning using the constructed complete dataset. The results of the simulation and theoretical analysis suggest that the proposed unfolded network achieves lower computational costs compared to typical sparse recovery methods. Furthermore, it maintains excellent estimation performance even in the presence of array magnitude-phase errors.

Key words: direction of arrival (DOA), sparse recovery, alternating iterative minimization (AIM), deep unfolding, amplitude-phase error

Hangui ZHU, Xixi CHEN, Teng MA, Yongliang WANG. Deep unfolded amplitude-phase error self-calibration network for DOA estimation[J]. Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics, doi: 10.23919/JSEE.2024.000099.

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