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- Facheng Hu
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- Thu, 08/15/2024 - 12:46
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- 10.21227/452q-hk60
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Abstract
Relative direction estimation among neighboring vehicles in urban environments is essential to a wide variety
of driving safety applications. To obtain accurate direction information solely from vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications is desirable but very challenging due to enormous multipath effects. In this paper, we propose an online cross-domain vehicular relative direction estimation method, called DeepAoA+, based on a domain adaptive deep learning method. More specifically, the channel state information (CSI) is estimated from a set of synchronized receiving radios at a receiver vehicle. By taking the CSI phase difference between a pair of such radios, CSI phase errors in the baseband can be effectively eliminated, which makes a compelling feature to represent the direction of incident radio frequency (RF) signals and the dynamic channel characteristics. Moreover, to conquer the non-i.i.d (independent and identically distributed) problem caused by dynamic environments, DeepAoA+ discovers latent domains in the CSI
phase difference dataset. For each identified domain, a domain specific model is trained to estimate the Angle-of-Arrival (AoA) of incoming signals. To this end, a framework based on an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is proposed to obtain domain partitions considering downstream AoA estimation tasks. Furthermore, a pre-training technique is used to enhance the robustness of AoA estimation with misclassified test samples. We implement a prototype of DeepAoA+, using four synchronized Universal Software Radio Peripherals (USRPs) from various scenarios, and conduct extensive real-world experiments. The results demonstrate that DeepAoA+ can achieve the best AoA estimation with low latency.