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Main Authors: Ma, Yinglei, Xiao, Fei
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23963
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author Ma, Yinglei
Xiao, Fei
author_facet Ma, Yinglei
Xiao, Fei
contents BJT-based 2D temperature-sensor arrays are factory-calibrated to +/-0.1 degC, but post-deployment thermal and mechanical stresses drift their per-sensor gain-offset parameters by an order of magnitude, and in-lab recalibration is impractical. We present RASC (Region-Aware Self-Calibration), a five-stage algorithm that decomposes the global ill-posed problem into local cluster-level problems, runs robust alternating estimation (trimmed-mean field reconstruction + Huber IRLS) inside each cluster, and reconciles overlapping estimates by linear consensus on the cluster-overlap graph with provable exponential convergence. On 7,632 frames from a deployed 16x16 array exhibiting ~5x factory-spec non-uniformity, RASC cuts the locally-non-smooth fixed-pattern residual by 71+/-5% (10-fold CV), restoring +/-0.1 degC accuracy while perturbing the calibrated field by only 0.041 degC RMSE; reduction concentrates at the edges (78% vs 55% interior). In simulations on 8x8 to 32x32 arrays, RASC matches an oracle centralized EKF within 0.10 degC with ~4x lower bandwidth.
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spellingShingle RASC: Region-Aware Self-Calibration for Dense 2D Sensor Arrays
Ma, Yinglei
Xiao, Fei
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Signal Processing
BJT-based 2D temperature-sensor arrays are factory-calibrated to +/-0.1 degC, but post-deployment thermal and mechanical stresses drift their per-sensor gain-offset parameters by an order of magnitude, and in-lab recalibration is impractical. We present RASC (Region-Aware Self-Calibration), a five-stage algorithm that decomposes the global ill-posed problem into local cluster-level problems, runs robust alternating estimation (trimmed-mean field reconstruction + Huber IRLS) inside each cluster, and reconciles overlapping estimates by linear consensus on the cluster-overlap graph with provable exponential convergence. On 7,632 frames from a deployed 16x16 array exhibiting ~5x factory-spec non-uniformity, RASC cuts the locally-non-smooth fixed-pattern residual by 71+/-5% (10-fold CV), restoring +/-0.1 degC accuracy while perturbing the calibrated field by only 0.041 degC RMSE; reduction concentrates at the edges (78% vs 55% interior). In simulations on 8x8 to 32x32 arrays, RASC matches an oracle centralized EKF within 0.10 degC with ~4x lower bandwidth.
title RASC: Region-Aware Self-Calibration for Dense 2D Sensor Arrays
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23963