Research Article

Mutual Coupling Compensation for Direction-of-Arrival Estimations Using the Receiving-Mutual-Impedance Method

Table 2

DOA estimation using MPM and a ULA with 8 antenna elements with the element separation of . DOA estimation is based on the decoupled voltages using the RMI determined based on methods 2 and 3.

DirectionMeanBiasStandard dev.RMSE

Method 220°26.8300°6.8300°1.9839°7.1121°
35°79.8916°44.8916°8.9505°45.7743°
100°99.3991°0.6008°3.4001°3.4511°

Method 320°20.1861°0.1861°0.4111°0.4511°
35°35.1614°0.1614°0.4504°0.4783°
100°100.0078°0.0078°0.0078°0.0110°