Nonlinear Blind Compensation for Array Signal Processing Application

• Main Authors: Jialu Huang, Hong Ma, Jiang Jin, Hua Zhang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2018-04-01
• Series: Sensors
• Subjects: nonlinear blind compensation algorithm; array receiver; two-dimensional direction-of-arrival; spurious-free dynamic range; array signal processing
• Online Access: http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/4/1286

Recently, nonlinear blind compensation technique has attracted growing attention in array signal processing application. However, due to the nonlinear distortion stemming from array receiver which consists of multi-channel radio frequency (RF) front-ends, it is too difficult to estimate the parameters of array signal accurately. A novel nonlinear blind compensation algorithm aims at the nonlinearity mitigation of array receiver and its spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) improvement, which will be more precise to estimate the parameters of target signals such as their two-dimensional directions of arrival (2-D DOAs). Herein, the suggested method is designed as follows: the nonlinear model parameters of any channel of RF front-end are extracted to synchronously compensate the nonlinear distortion of the entire receiver. Furthermore, a verification experiment on the array signal from a uniform circular array (UCA) is adopted to testify the validity of our approach. The real-world experimental results show that the SFDR of the receiver is enhanced, leading to a significant improvement of the 2-D DOAs estimation performance for weak target signals. And these results demonstrate that our nonlinear blind compensation algorithm is effective to estimate the parameters of weak array signal in concomitance with strong jammers.