Robust Direction of Arrival Estimation Using Uniform Circular Antenna Array based on Total Forward - Backward Matrix Pencil Method
In this paper, we propose an approach to estimate the Direction of Arrival (DOA) of Radio coherent incoming signals using the Total Forward – Backward Matrix Pencil algorithm (TFBMP). This algorithm works directly on samples of signals impinging on an M – element Uniform Circular Antenna (UCA) array, which has a smaller size as well as larger observation angle in comparison with the Uniform Linear Antenna (ULA) array. Therefore, the correlation between the received signals does not significantly impact on its performance and efficiency. Furthermore, this algorithm can also extract the DOA information with only one snapshot of signal. Simulation results for DOA estimation using the proposed approach for different situations of incoming signals as well as the number of snapshots in the presence of noise will be assessed to verify its performance.