A Linear Technique for Artifacts Correction and Compensation in Phase Interferometric Angle of Arrival Estimation

Abstract

Radio localization and radio positioning are relevant research fields for many telecommunications technologies. Usually, the solutions proposed by the literature rely on adaptive techniques related to some parameters that can be extracted from the received signal in cooperative device tracking. In this paper, we explore the artifacts that may be introduced into Angle-of-Arrival estimation based on phase interferometry, and we introduce a simple technique to mitigate their impact. Details of the mathematical discussion are presented and the approach is experimentally validated. The experimental results are compared with raw data to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed technique.

Keywords

• Angle-of-Arrival estimation
• phased arrays
• phase interferometry
• localization
• error correction