Fast DOA estimation algorithm using pseudo covariance matrix

Author(s):  
Jung-Tae Kim ◽  
Dong-Seog Han
Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (13) ◽  
pp. 4403
Author(s):  
Ji Woong Paik ◽  
Joon-Ho Lee ◽  
Wooyoung Hong

An enhanced smoothed l0-norm algorithm for the passive phased array system, which uses the covariance matrix of the received signal, is proposed in this paper. The SL0 (smoothed l0-norm) algorithm is a fast compressive-sensing-based DOA (direction-of-arrival) estimation algorithm that uses a single snapshot from the received signal. In the conventional SL0 algorithm, there are limitations in the resolution and the DOA estimation performance, since a single sample is used. If multiple snapshots are used, the conventional SL0 algorithm can improve performance in terms of the DOA estimation. In this paper, a covariance-fitting-based SL0 algorithm is proposed to further reduce the number of optimization variables when using multiple snapshots of the received signal. A cost function and a new null-space projection term of the sparse recovery for the proposed scheme are presented. In order to verify the performance of the proposed algorithm, we present the simulation results and the experimental results based on the measured data.


2014 ◽  
Vol 998-999 ◽  
pp. 779-783
Author(s):  
Zheng Luo ◽  
Fei Yu ◽  
Lin Wu ◽  
Yuan Liu

A novel two-dimensional (2D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation algorithm utilizing a sparse signal representation of higher-order power of covariance matrix is proposed. Through applying the higher-order power of covariance matrix to construct a new sparse decomposition vector, this algorithm avoids the estimation of incident signal number and eigenvalue decomposition. And the hierarchical granularity-dictionary is studied, which forms the over-complete dictionary adaptively in the light of source signals’ distribution. Compared with MUSIC and L1-SVD, this algorithm not only provides a better 2D DOA performance but also possesses the capability of coherent signals estimation. Theoretical analysis and simulation results demonstrate the validity and robust of the proposed algorithm.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weijie Tan ◽  
Xi’an Feng

In this paper, we address the direction finding problem in the background of unknown nonuniform noise with nested array. A novel gridless direction finding method is proposed via the low-rank covariance matrix approximation, which is based on a reweighted nuclear norm optimization. In the proposed method, we first eliminate the noise variance variable by linear transform and utilize the covariance fitting criteria to determine the regularization parameter for insuring robustness. And then we reconstruct the low-rank covariance matrix by iteratively reweighted nuclear norm optimization that imposes the nonconvex penalty. Finally, we exploit the search-free DoA estimation method to perform the parameter estimation. Numerical simulations are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. Moreover, results indicate that the proposed method has more accurate DoA estimation in the nonuniform noise and off-grid cases compared with the state-of-the-art DoA estimation algorithm.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Hao Zhou ◽  
Guoping Hu ◽  
Junpeng Shi ◽  
Ziang Feng

Nested array can expand the degrees of freedom (DOF) from difference coarray perspective, but suffering from the performance degradation of direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in unknown non-uniform noise. In this paper, a novel diagonal reloading (DR) based DOA estimation algorithm is proposed using a recently developed nested MIMO array. The elements in the main diagonal of the sample covariance matrix are eliminated; next the smallest MN-K eigenvalues of the revised matrix are obtained and averaged to estimate the sum value of the signal power. Further the estimated sum value is filled into the main diagonal of the revised matrix for estimating the signal covariance matrix. In this case, the negative effect of noise is eliminated without losing the useful information of the signal matrix. Besides, the degrees of freedom are expanded obviously, resulting in the performance improvement. Several simulations are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.


Information ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tehseen Hassan ◽  
Fei Gao ◽  
Babur Jalal ◽  
Sheeraz Arif

Recently, direction of arrival (DOA) estimation premised on the sparse arrays interpolation approaches, such as co-prime arrays (CPA) and nested array, have attained extensive attention because of the effectiveness and capability of providing higher degrees of freedom (DOFs). The co-prime array interpolation approach can detect O(MN) paths with O(M + N) sensors in the array. However, the presence of missing elements (holes) in the difference coarray has limited the number of DOFs. To implement co-prime coarray on subspace based DOA estimation algorithm namely multiple signal classification (MUSIC), a reshaping operation followed by the spatial smoothing technique have been presented in the literature. In this paper, an active coarray interpolation (ACI) is proposed to efficiently recovering the covariance matrix of the augmented coarray from the original covariance matrix of source signals with no vectorizing and spatial smoothing operation; thus, the computational complexity reduces significantly. Moreover, the numerical simulations of the proposed ACI approach offers better performance compared to its counterparts.


2014 ◽  
Vol 926-930 ◽  
pp. 1853-1856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao You Yu ◽  
Ming Qian Zhou

According to IEEE Std 802.11p, a fast DOA estimation algorithm of multiple targets based on beam-forming techniques in OFDM radar-communication system for vehicular applications is discussed in this paper. The proposed algorithm has reduced computational complexity utilizing high order power of the inverse spatial covariance matrix without eigen-decomposition. Simulation results demonstrate it is suitable for vehicular application.


Author(s):  
Tao Chen ◽  
Lin Shi ◽  
Yongzhi Yu

Abstract Due to the rapid development and wide application of compressed sensing and sparse reconstruction theory, there exists a series of sparsity-based methods for the antenna sensor array direction of arrival (DOA) estimation with excellent performance. However, it is known that this kind of algorithms always suffers from the problem of grid mismatch. To overcome this shortcoming, a gridless DOA estimation algorithm with finite rate of innovation (FRI) based on a symmetric Toeplitz covariance matrix is proposed for uniform linear array (ULA) in this paper. In particular, a multiple measurement vector (MMV) FRI reconstruction model is built by exploiting the covariance data denoised according to covariance fitting criteria rather than the direct data or the original covariance data, which is commonly used in other representative gridless DOA estimation methods. Next, DOA can be retrieved from the recovered covariance matrix by utilizing an annihilating filter because each covariance data is a linear combination of complex exponentials. It guarantees to produce an exact spatial sparse estimate without discretization required by existing sparsity-based DOA estimation methods. Finally, the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed algorithm are demonstrated by numerical simulations.


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