Neural Network-Based Direction of Arrival Estimation Using Real-Time Signal Capture from a Dual-Channel SDR Platform
摘要
Accurate direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is crucial for applications like antenna array beamforming and wireless localization. Traditional DOA methods such as MUSIC, ESPRIT, and Capon often struggle with computational complexity and degraded performance in challenging environments. This paper provides a deep learning-based DOA estimator applied to real-time complex samples collected using an FMCOMMS2 and Zed Board SDR dual-channel receiver with Vivaldi Antenna spaced at half-wavelength. Measurements in the azimuth plane from 30°to 130°in 10°increments, generating a dataset for training a deep neural network (DNN). The proposed DNN architecture effectively maps the features of signals to DOA with a mean squared logarithmic error of