Abstract
We consider the problem of direction of arrival (DOA) estimation based on a nonuniform linear nested array which can provide O(N <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> ) degrees of freedom using only N sensors. Both subspace-based and sparsity-based algorithms require certain modeling assumptions, for example, exact known array geometry, including sensor gain and phase. In practice, however, the actual sensor gain and phase are often perturbed from their nominal values, which results in failure of the existing DOA estimation algorithms. In this paper, we investigate the self-calibration problem for perturbed nested arrays, proposing corresponding robust algorithms to estimate both the model errors and the DOAs. The partial Toeplitz structure of the covariance matrix is employed to estimate the gain errors, and the sparse total least squares is used to deal with the phase error issue. Additionally, for the first time, we extend the proposed approaches to calibrate general non-uniform linear arrays. Numerical examples are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed strategies.
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