The Robustness of Pencil Beam Synthesis Without Considering Sensor Uncertainties

Sensor uncertainties such as amplitude and phase errors may deteriorate the performance of array pattern synthesis. Therefore, several robust synthesis methods have been proposed. In this communication, we show that, for pencil beams, the direct synthesis method that does not take into account senso...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on antennas and propagation Jg. 70; H. 9; S. 8608 - 8613
Hauptverfasser: Zhang, Ming, Li, Jianxing, Zhang, Anxue
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York IEEE 01.09.2022
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Schlagworte:
Array pattern synthesis
Arrays
Mathematical analysis
Norms
Optimization
Optimization models
Optimized production technology
peak sidelobe level (PSLL)
Pencil beams
Perturbation
Phased arrays
Robustness
Scaling factors
second-order cone programming (SOCP)
Sensor arrays
sensor uncertainties
Sensors
Steering
Synthesis
Uncertainty
ISSN:0018-926X, 1558-2221
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Zusammenfassung:Sensor uncertainties such as amplitude and phase errors may deteriorate the performance of array pattern synthesis. Therefore, several robust synthesis methods have been proposed. In this communication, we show that, for pencil beams, the direct synthesis method that does not take into account sensor errors also has robustness against sensor uncertainties. We first reformulate the robust synthesis method based on the worst-case performance criterion as a perturbation of the direct synthesis method. Then we prove that the direct and robust synthesis methods have the same solution up to a scaling factor. Thus, they produce the same array pattern (normalized). The condition for this result is that the error norms of steering vectors in different directions are equal to a small positive number, which is a reasonable assumption in practice. In addition, we derive a new optimization model for the robust synthesis method that can be solved much faster than the existing one.
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ISSN:0018-926X
1558-2221
DOI:10.1109/TAP.2022.3161348