Improving Accuracy of an Amplitude Comparison-Based Direction-Finding System by Neural Network Optimization
Open Access
- 14 September 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Access
- Vol. 8, 169688-169700
- https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3024031
Abstract
In the positioning and navigation field, it is essential to use the direction-finding system to obtain the signal direction of arrival (DOA) and target position. The amplitude comparison-based monopulse (ACM) DOA algorithm performs a few calculations, has a simple system structure, and is widely used. The traditional ACM DOA algorithm uses the first-order Taylor expansion to introduce the nonlinear errors, and the angle measurement range is limited. In response to this problem, this study establishes a neural network model for error compensation, and it optimizes the traditional algorithm to obtain a better angle estimation performance. In order to perform an experiment with the proposed algorithm, a novel experimental device was designed. Two measurements at different angles were obtained by rotating the antenna. The ACM angle estimation used only one directional antenna. The results verified the optimization algorithm. The experimental results demonstrated that in comparison with the traditional first-order and the improved third-order Taylor expansion ACM DOA algorithm, the mean absolute error of this method reduced by 81.62% and 72.62%, respectively.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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