Deep Learning-Based Terahertz Phased Array System Beam Compensation Algorithm for Space Radiation Environments
Authors:
Chensheng Ma, Yuanzhi He, Rongbing Chen
Conference:
ICIC 2026 Posters, Toronto, Canada, July 22-26, 2026
Pages:
353-364
Keywords:
terahertz, deep learning, beam compensation, space radiation environments
Abstract
Inter-satellite terahertz (THz) communications, enabled by abundant spectrum and highly directional beams, are a key technology for future space information net-works. However, the extremely narrow beamwidth of THz signals makes the link highly sensitive to beam misalignment. In practical spaceborne THz phased ar-rays, space radiation and inherent hardware imperfections jointly cause radiation pattern distortion and additional pointing errors, leading to severe degradation in link performance. Although traditional optimization methods, such as genetic al-gorithms and convex optimization, have been shown to be effective for beam compensation, they often suffer from local optima, high computational complexi-ty, long convergence time, and limited adaptability. To address these challenges, we propose a deep learning-based beam compensation algorithm for radiation-affected THz phased array systems. We develop a health-aware Res-UNet (HA-Res-UNet) compensation network that leverages array-state feedback for dynam-ic beam correction. We introduce a multi-scale health-mask attention module that embeds element-health priors into feature aggregation to suppress failed elements and emphasize compensable regions. Simulation results demonstrate that the pro-posed method achieves approximately 90.4% pointing error reduction, improves the average pointing accuracy by about 10.4 times, and effectively mitigates radia-tion pattern distortions caused by failed array elements.
BibTeX Citation:
@inproceedings{ICIC2026,
author = {Chensheng Ma, Yuanzhi He, Rongbing Chen},
title = {Deep Learning-Based Terahertz Phased Array System Beam Compensation Algorithm for Space Radiation Environments},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2026)},
month = {July},
date = {22-26},
year = {2026},
address = {Toronto, Canada},
pages = {353-364},
note = {Poster Volume 8}
doi = {
10.65286/icic.v22i2.27714}
}