[C1] Auto-Calibration
General Aim: This project is concerned with signal processing techniques for on-line calibration and recalibration of sensor arrays in order to compensate errors/uncertainties in location (geometrical errors), phase and gain (electrical errors), synchronisation, etc, even when all errors/uncertainties are present simultaneously and can change with time.
Array of sensors: An "uncalibrated" array of N sensors of arbitrary geometry will be considered operating in a multitarget environment where the array uncertainties/errors can degrade signi cantly the array performance either slowly or even abruptly. Note that the array input vector-signal may contain also sperious signals due to sensor/hardware problems while sensor failure (partial or full), will be studied as part of the array calibration problem.
In summary, in this project the problem of uncertainties/errors in sensor-arrays will be addressed using "hybrid" auto-calibration approaches. This is a mixture of novel pilot and self calibration techniquescombined in an smart and automated way. The proposed algorithms will be veri ed using Imperial College hardware platform.
Project Supervisor
Professor Manikas holds the Chair of the Communications and Array Processing in the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London. He has published an extensive set of journal and conference papers in the area of digital communications and array signal processing and is the Author of a book (monograph) entitled "Differential Geometry in Array Processing". He is on the editorial board of IET Proceedings Signal Processing and the editor of the ICP research book-series on Communications and Signal Processing (jointly with Prof. A.G. Constantinides). He has held a number of research consultancies for the EU, industry and government organisations. He also has had various technical chairs at international conferences and has been a TPC member of major IEEE conferences He has served as an Expert Witness in the High Court of Justice (UK) and is currently a member of the Royal Society's International Fellowship Committee (1st Jan 2008 until 31st Dec 2010). He is leading a strong group of researchers at Imperial College and has supervised successfully 29 PhDs and more than 100 Masters project-students. Professor Manikas is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of IEE and a Chartered Engineer.
