Distributed Beamforming for Randomly Distributed Sensors with Position Error Correction

Beam forming is a technique designed for antenna an array in which phase of each antenna element is adjusted such that the resultant waves are coherently added to get maximum signal strength at the desired direction. This technique has been applied to sensors recently. Since the sensors are randomly distributed, the randomness introduces deviation in position of sensors from ideal linear array. The deviation in position of actual sensor to ideal one is called position error and an approach to correct position error is proposed in this work. The sensors distribution has been modeled using uniform and Gaussian distributions. The results have been compared with ideal linear array.