2025-12-16
Auto-Calibration of Near-Field Microwave Measurements for Complex Permittivity Estimation
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 136, 46-56, 2025
Abstract
This paper presents a numerical study of a novel method for auto-calibration of scatteringparameter measurements in a near-field microwave sensor system. The here proposed method is applied to estimation of the average complex permittivity in a measurement domain from the scattering parameters, corrupted by gain uncertainties in the measurement instruments. Simultaneously with the average complex permittivity, the gain uncertainties are also estimated. The characteristic property of the proposed method is that no simplified mathematical model of the measurement domain is assumed, and instead a set of a-priori calibrated measurements is used. Numerical studies demonstrate the performance of the method in noiseless and noisy settings with and without nuisance stochastic perturbations in the measurement domain. An approach to compensate for the stochastic perturbations in the measurement domain permittivity is proposed, and it demonstrates an improved performance of the method in numerical examinations.
Citation
Andrei Ludvig-Osipov, Simon Stenmark, Thomas Rylander, and Tomas McKelvey, "Auto-Calibration of Near-Field Microwave Measurements for Complex Permittivity Estimation," Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 136, 46-56, 2025.
doi:10.2528/PIERM25090302
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