Calibration of uniform circular arrays

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In practice, there exist many error sources which distort the antenna array pattern. For example, elements of antenna arrays influence each other (known as mutual coupling), mismatches in cables and element positions affects the antenna radiation pattern and also unequal gain and phase characteristics of RF receiver distorts the received signal. These effects generally degrade the array performance. They cause an increase in sidelobe levels with an accompanying decrease in gain. Also, these errors limit the performance of direction finding (DF) algorithms. So, in order to have low sidelobe level, good performance in direction finding and beamforming, calibration is necessary. In the literature, there exist many algorithms proposed for the calibration of errors. Calibration method used in this thesis assumes that there is a linear transformation between ideal signal and measurements. Calibration matrix is formed by using measurements. In this work, we look for the adequate number of measurements for successful calibration. Performance of calibration method may depend on the angle interval from which measurements are taken. So, the width of the data collection angle interval is also studied. Moreover, in real life, measurements can be collected from equally or randomly spaced angles. Does it affect the performance of calibration? The answer of this question is also inspected in this thesis. Additionally, the performance of algorithm under noise is studied. Performance evaluation is done for both elevation and azimuth sectors. Simulations are carried out on MATLABTM and Ansoft HFSS software package.

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Antenna arrays., Antennas (Electronics)., Telecommunication.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/20091

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B. Aykanat, “Calibration of uniform circular arrays,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2010.