Abstract
Based on the , a novel method is proposed to estimate the direction-of-arrival (DOA) and jointly calibrate , , and . In this paper, only one auxiliary source is required to generate three time-disjoint sources with the help of the rotation platform. Subsequently, according to the principle that the signal subspace is orthogonal to the noise subspace, the cost function is constructed. The alternating iteration method is used to estimate the coefficients of the three kinds of errors. During the process, the proposed algorithm makes full use of the structural characteristics of the array when estimating , while the signal phase matrix is used to eliminate the phase influence caused by the delay in signal arrival at the antenna array when estimating and . Compared with the algorithm using multidimensional nonlinear search, the proposed algorithm has lower computational complexity. Moreover, our algorithm does not require additional auxiliary sensors. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is effective and can precisely and comprehensively calibrate the errors in a .