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DOA Estimation via Distributionally Robust Optimization With Gain-Phase Errors

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Dingkang Li
孙国皓 (Guohao Sun)
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Yuandong Ji
DOI:10.1109/LSP.2026.3667071delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is highly sensitive to receiving gain–phase mismatches, which distort the array response and degrade estimation accuracy. To ensure reliable performance without assuming a known error distribution, this letter proposes a distributionally robust optimization (DRO) framework that models receive-chain uncertainty via an ambiguity set explicitly bounding gain and phase errors. Under this construction, we prove an equivalence that reformulates the robust DOA estimator as a tractable convex program. Unlike self-calibration methods, the proposed approach does not impose structural constraints and thus applies to arbitrary linear array configurations. Simulations verify consistent improvements over representative state-of-the-art techniques, while other imperfections (e.g., mutual coupling and sensor position errors) are beyond the scope of this work.
Keywords:
Robust DOA estimation
gain and phase error
arbitrary linear array
distributionally robust optimization

Journal

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IEEE Signal Processing Letters
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3.9
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600
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sichuan university
Scholars:
11.9W
Papers: 7.7W
Citations: 100