scholarly journals Geometrically Weighted Direction of Arrival Estimation Method for Small Scale Square Array

Author(s):  
Suat Yetiş ◽  
Özgür TAMER

Abstract In this work, a combined direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation method for a four element square array is presented. A four element array is a very small planar array and estimation performance with ordinary DoA estimation techniques is considerably low. Main goal in this work is to improve the estimation performance of such an array by estimating the DoA with different geometrical configurations of the array elements and combine the results to evaluate the resulting DoA estimation. The geometrical structures employed are based on the circular, L shaped and linear configurations of the array elements. Performances of the geometries are evaluated and a combining filter based on the weighted results of the geometries is generated. The weighted results evaluated at the output of the filter are superior when compared with individual results of each of the geometries.

2014 ◽  
Vol 1049-1050 ◽  
pp. 1788-1791
Author(s):  
Xiao Feng Qiu ◽  
Xiao Fei Zhang

This paper presents the model of satellite planar array, and interference localization via direction of arrival (DOA) estimation. We derive a dimension reduction DOA estimaton algorithm therein. The proposed algorithm, which only requires a one-dimensional local searching, can avoid the high computational cost within two-dimensional multiple signal classification (2D-MUSIC) algorithm. We illustrate that the proposed algorithm has better angle estimation performance than estimation method of signal parameters via rotational invariance technique (ESPRIT) algorithm, and has very close angle estimation performance to 2D-MUSIC algorithm. Furthermore, our algorithm requires no extra pairing. Simulation results present the usefulness of our algorithm.


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.


Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 2788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuehao Guo ◽  
Xianpeng Wang ◽  
Wensi Wang ◽  
Mengxing Huang ◽  
Chong Shen ◽  
...  

In the paper, the estimation of joint direction-of-departure (DOD) and direction-of-arrival (DOA) for strictly noncircular targets in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar with unknown mutual coupling is considered, and a tensor-based angle estimation method is proposed. In the proposed method, making use of the banded symmetric Toeplitz structure of the mutual coupling matrix, the influence of the unknown mutual coupling is removed in the tensor domain. Then, a special enhancement tensor is formulated to capture both the noncircularity and inherent multidimensional structure of strictly noncircular signals. After that, the higher-order singular value decomposition (HOSVD) technology is applied for estimating the tensor-based signal subspace. Finally, the direction-of-departure (DOD) and direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is obtained by utilizing the rotational invariance technique. Due to the use of both noncircularity and multidimensional structure of the detected signal, the algorithm in this paper has better angle estimation performance than other subspace-based algorithms. The experiment results verify that the method proposed has better angle estimation performance.


2012 ◽  
Vol 263-266 ◽  
pp. 135-138
Author(s):  
Xue Bing Han ◽  
Zhao Jun Jiang

In this paper, we account for efficient approach of direction-of-arrival estimation based on sparse reconstruction of sensor measurements with an overcomplete basis. MSD-FOCUSS ( MMV Synchronous Descending FOCal Underdetermined System Solver) algorithm is developed against to sparse reconstruction in multiple-measurement-vectors (MMV) system where noise perturbations exist in both the measurements and sensing matrix. The paper shows how sparse-signal model of DOA estimation is established and MSD-FOCUSS is derived, then the simulation results illustrate the advantage of MSD-FOCUSS when it is used to solve the problem of DOA estimation.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aihua Liu ◽  
Qiang Yang ◽  
Xin Zhang ◽  
Weibo Deng

A method of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation using array interpolation is proposed in this paper to increase the number of resolvable sources and improve the DOA estimation performance for coprime array configuration with holes in its virtual array. The virtual symmetric nonuniform linear array (VSNLA) of coprime array signal model is introduced, with the conventional MUSIC with spatial smoothing algorithm (SS-MUSIC) applied on the continuous lags in the VSNLA; the degrees of freedom (DoFs) for DOA estimation are obviously not fully exploited. To effectively utilize the extent of DoFs offered by the coarray configuration, a compressing sensing based array interpolation algorithm is proposed. The compressing sensing technique is used to obtain the coarse initial DOA estimation, and a modified iterative initial DOA estimation based interpolation algorithm (IMCA-AI) is then utilized to obtain the final DOA estimation, which maps the sample covariance matrix of the VSNLA to the covariance matrix of a filled virtual symmetric uniform linear array (VSULA) with the same aperture size. The proposed DOA estimation method can efficiently improve the DOA estimation performance. The numerical simulations are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuang Li ◽  
Xiaoxiao Jiang ◽  
Sai Ma ◽  
Yingguan Wang

A novel direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation method is proposed based on the sparse cumulants fitting without redundancy. Firstly, we derive that some fourth order cumulants of the array output are redundant and therefore are removed to reduce computational complexity. Then, the left cumulants are sparsely represented on an overcomplete basis and the DOAs are resolved by using a software package. Despite introducing a high variance, the proposed method shows several advantages including the ability to detect more sources than sensors, high resolution, and robustness to all kinds of Gaussian noise. Besides, our method does not have to know, a priori, the number of sources. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method.


2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Sun ◽  
Kyle O'Keefe ◽  
Jian Guo ◽  
Eberhard Gill

This paper proposes a precise and fast direction of arrival estimation method using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) carrier phase measurements. Single-epoch, single-satellite integer cycle ambiguities are reliably resolved by making use of constraints and taking advantages of antenna arrays. The algorithm shows good robustness in cases where signal interruption or corruption occurs on some antenna elements as long as four antenna elements in a non-planar array have uncorrupted observables. The algorithm is demonstrated by field tests where antenna elements are connected to multiple receivers with an external common clock. The results indicate a high success rate of single-epoch ambiguity resolution and high direction of arrival accuracy.


2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (04) ◽  
pp. 1540007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guolong Liang ◽  
Wenbin Zhao ◽  
Zhan Fan

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is of great interest due to its wide applications in sonar, radar and many other areas. However, the near-field interference is always presented in the received data, which may result in degradation of DOA estimation. An approach which can suppress the near-field interference and preserve the far-field signal desired by using a spatial matrix filter is proposed in this paper and some typical DOA estimation algorithms are adjusted to match the filtered data. Simulation results show that the approach can improve capability of DOA estimation under near-field inference efficiently.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 2191
Author(s):  
Huichao Yan ◽  
Ting Chen ◽  
Peng Wang ◽  
Linmei Zhang ◽  
Rong Cheng ◽  
...  

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation has always been a hot topic for researchers. The complex and changeable environment makes it very challenging to estimate the DOA in a small snapshot and strong noise environment. The direction-of-arrival estimation method based on compressed sensing (CS) is a new method proposed in recent years. It has received widespread attention because it can realize the direction-of-arrival estimation under small snapshots. However, this method will cause serious distortion in a strong noise environment. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a DOA estimation algorithm based on the principle of CS and density-based spatial clustering (DBSCAN). First of all, in order to make the estimation accuracy higher, this paper selects a signal reconstruction strategy based on the basis pursuit de-noising (BPDN). In response to the challenge of the selection of regularization parameters in this strategy, the power spectrum entropy is proposed to characterize the noise intensity of the signal, so as to provide reasonable suggestions for the selection of regularization parameters; Then, this paper finds out that the DOA estimation based on the principle of CS will get a denser estimation near the real angle under the condition of small snapshots through analysis, so it is proposed to use a DBSCAN method to process the above data to obtain the final DOA estimate; Finally, calculate the cluster center value of each cluster, the number of clusters is the number of signal sources, and the cluster center value is the final DOA estimate. The proposed method is applied to the simulation experiment and the micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) vector hydrophone lake test experiment, and they are proved that the proposed method can obtain good results of DOA estimation under the conditions of small snapshots and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).


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