Robust DOA Estimation in the Presence of Miscalibrated Sensors

Abstract

In this letter, we propose a robust direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation algorithm in the context of sparse reconstruction, where some array sensors are miscalibrated. In this case, conventional DOA estimation algorithms suffer from degraded performance or even failed operations. In the proposed approach, the miscalibrated sensor observations are treated as outliers, and a weighting factor is adaptively optimized and applied to each sensor in order to effectively mitigate the effect of the outliers. An algorithm based on the maximum correntropy criterion is then developed to yield robust DOA estimation. The simulation results are presented to verify the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed approach compared with conventional DOA estimation algorithms.