Khan Shafqat Ullah, Rahim M K A, Aminu-Baba Murtala, Murad N A
Advanced RF & Microwave Research Group, Department of Communication Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.
Department of Computer and Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Engineering Technology, Abubakar Tafawa University, Yelwa Bauchi, Nigeria.
PLoS One. 2017 Dec 18;12(12):e0189240. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189240. eCollection 2017.
This paper proposes the correction of faulty sensors using a synthesis of the greedy sparse constrained optimization GSCO) technique. The failure of sensors can damage the radiation power pattern in terms of sidelobes and nulls. The synthesis problem can recover the wanted power pattern with reduced number of sensors into the background of greedy algorithm and solved with orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) technique. Numerical simulation examples of linear arrays are offered to demonstrate the effectiveness of getting the wanted power pattern with a reduced number of antenna sensors which is compared with the available techniques in terms of sidelobes level and number of nulls.