scholarly journals An Improved Two-Dimensional Direction-Of-Arrival Estimation Algorithm for L-Shaped Nested Arrays with Small Sample Sizes

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 2176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaofeng Gao ◽  
Xinhong Hao ◽  
Ping Li ◽  
Guolin Li
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Matrix ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Full Rank ◽  
Direction Of Arrival ◽  
Estimation Algorithm ◽  
Doa Estimation ◽  
Covariance Matrices ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Nested Arrays

In this paper, an improved two-dimensional (2-D) direction of arrival (DOA) estimation algorithm for L-shaped nested arrays is proposed. Unlike the approach for a classical nested array, which use the auto-correlation matrix (ACM) to increase the degrees of freedom (DOF), we utilize the cross-correlation matrix (CCM) of different sub-arrays to generate two long consecutive virtual arrays. These acquire a large number of DOF without redundant elements and eliminate noise effects. Furthermore, we reconstruct the CCM based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) operation in order to reduce the perturbation of noise for small numbers of samples. To cope with the matrix rank deficiency of the virtual arrays, we construct the full rank equivalent covariance matrices by using the output and its conjugate vector of virtual arrays. The unitary estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance technique (ESPRIT) is then performed on the covariance matrices to obtain the DOA of incident signals with low computational complexity. Finally, angle pairing is achieved by deriving the equivalent signal vector of the virtual arrays using the estimated angles. Numerical simulation results show that the proposed algorithm not only provides more accurate 2-D DOA estimation performance with low complexity, but also achieves angle estimation for small numbers of samples compared to existing similar methods.

scholarly journals Novel Diagonal Reloading Based Direction of Arrival Estimation in Unknown Non-Uniform Noise

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Hao Zhou ◽  
Guoping Hu ◽  
Junpeng Shi ◽  
Ziang Feng
Keyword(s):  
Covariance Matrix ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Direction Of Arrival ◽  
Estimation Algorithm ◽  
Doa Estimation ◽  
Main Diagonal ◽  
Sample Covariance ◽  
Uniform Noise ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Signal Covariance Matrix

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.

scholarly journals Two-Dimensional Direction of Arrival (DOA) Estimation for Rectangular Array via Compressive Sensing Trilinear Model

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huaxin Yu ◽  
Xiaofeng Qiu ◽  
Xiaofei Zhang ◽  
Chenghua Wang ◽  
Gang Yang
Keyword(s):  
Compressive Sensing ◽  
Direction Of Arrival ◽  
Estimation Algorithm ◽  
Doa Estimation ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Rectangular Array ◽  
Angle Estimation ◽  
Estimation Performance ◽  
Trilinear Model ◽  
2D Doa Estimation

We investigate the topic of two-dimensional direction of arrival (2D-DOA) estimation for rectangular array. This paper links angle estimation problem to compressive sensing trilinear model and derives a compressive sensing trilinear model-based angle estimation algorithm which can obtain the paired 2D-DOA estimation. The proposed algorithm not only requires no spectral peak searching but also has better angle estimation performance than estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques (ESPRIT) algorithm. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm has close angle estimation performance to trilinear decomposition. The proposed algorithm can be regarded as a combination of trilinear model and compressive sensing theory, and it brings much lower computational complexity and much smaller demand for storage capacity. Numerical simulations present the effectiveness of our approach.

scholarly journals Two-Dimensional Angle Estimation of Two-Parallel Nested Arrays Based on Sparse Bayesian Estimation

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 3553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Chen ◽  
Daping Bi ◽  
Jifei Pan
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Estimation ◽  
Bayesian Learning ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Estimation Algorithm ◽  
Doa Estimation ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Value Decomposition ◽  
Nested Arrays ◽  
Signal Sources

To increase the number of estimable signal sources, two-parallel nested arrays are proposed, which consist of two subarrays with sensors, and can estimate the two-dimensional (2-D) direction of arrival (DOA) of signal sources. To solve the problem of direction finding with two-parallel nested arrays, a 2-D DOA estimation algorithm based on sparse Bayesian estimation is proposed. Through a vectorization matrix, smoothing reconstruction matrix and singular value decomposition (SVD), the algorithm reduces the size of the sparse dictionary and data noise. A sparse Bayesian learning algorithm is used to estimate one dimension angle. By a joint covariance matrix, another dimension angle is estimated, and the estimated angles from two dimensions can be automatically paired. The simulation results show that the number of DOA signals that can be estimated by the proposed two-parallel nested arrays is much larger than the number of sensors. The proposed two-dimensional DOA estimation algorithm has excellent estimation performance.

scholarly journals Direction of Arrival Estimation Using Augmentation of Coprime Arrays

Information ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tehseen Hassan ◽  
Fei Gao ◽  
Babur Jalal ◽  
Sheeraz Arif
Keyword(s):  
Covariance Matrix ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Direction Of Arrival ◽  
Estimation Algorithm ◽  
Doa Estimation ◽  
Spatial Smoothing ◽  
Multiple Signal Classification ◽  
Coprime Arrays ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Source Signals

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.

scholarly journals Design of Novel Nested Arrays Based on the Concept of Sum-Difference Coarray

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Weijian Si ◽  
Zhanli Peng ◽  
Changbo Hou ◽  
Fuhong Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Closed Form ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Direction Of Arrival ◽  
Doa Estimation ◽  
Temporal Information ◽  
Index Sets ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
Nested Arrays ◽  
The Relationship

Nested arrays have recently attracted considerable attention in the field of direction of arrival (DOA) estimation owing to the hole-free property of their virtual arrays. However, such virtual arrays are confined to difference coarrays as only spatial information of the received signals is exploited. By exploiting the spatial and temporal information jointly, four kinds of novel nested arrays based on the sum-difference coarray (SDCA) concept are proposed. To increase the degrees of freedom (DOFs) of SDCA, a modified translational nested array (MTNA) is introduced first. Then, by analyzing the relationship among sensors in MTNA, we give the specific positions of redundant sensors and remove them later. Finally, we derive the closed-form expressions for the proposed arrays as well as their SDCAs. Meanwhile, different index sets corresponding to the proposed arrays are also designed for their use in obtaining the desirable SDCAs. Moreover, the properties regarding DOFs of SDCAs and physical apertures for the proposed arrays are analyzed, which prove that both the DOFs and physical apertures are improved. Simulation results are provided to verify the superiority of the proposed arrays.

scholarly journals An Enhanced Smoothed L0-Norm Direction of Arrival Estimation Method Using Covariance Matrix

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (13) ◽  
pp. 4403
Author(s):  
Ji Woong Paik ◽  
Joon-Ho Lee ◽  
Wooyoung Hong
Keyword(s):  
Covariance Matrix ◽  
Phased Array ◽  
Null Space ◽  
Estimation Method ◽  
Direction Of Arrival ◽  
Estimation Algorithm ◽  
Doa Estimation ◽  
Direction Of Arrival Estimation ◽  
Improve Performance ◽  
Space Projection

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.

scholarly journals A Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Algorithm Based on Compressed Sensing and Density-Based Spatial Clustering and Its Application in Signal Processing of MEMS Vector Hydrophone

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 2191
Author(s):  
Huichao Yan ◽  
Ting Chen ◽  
Peng Wang ◽  
Linmei Zhang ◽  
Rong Cheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Compressed Sensing ◽  
Spatial Clustering ◽  
Direction Of Arrival ◽  
Estimation Algorithm ◽  
Doa Estimation ◽  
Cluster Center ◽  
Direction Of Arrival Estimation ◽  
Vector Hydrophone ◽  
Regularization Parameters ◽  
Selection Of

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).

scholarly journals Thermos Array: Two-Dimensional Sparse Array with Reduced Mutual Coupling

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Sun ◽  
Minglei Yang ◽  
Baixiao Chen
Keyword(s):  
Closed Form ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Mutual Coupling ◽  
Doa Estimation ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Spatial Smoothing ◽  
Planar Arrays ◽  
Half Wavelength ◽  
Planar Array ◽  
Small Spacing

Sparse planar arrays, such as the billboard array, the open box array, and the two-dimensional nested array, have drawn lots of interest owing to their ability of two-dimensional angle estimation. Unfortunately, these arrays often suffer from mutual-coupling problems due to the large number of sensor pairs with small spacing d (usually equal to a half wavelength), which will degrade the performance of direction of arrival (DOA) estimation. Recently, the two-dimensional half-open box array and the hourglass array are proposed to reduce the mutual coupling. But both of them still have many sensor pairs with small spacing d, which implies that the reduction of mutual coupling is still limited. In this paper, we propose a new sparse planar array which has fewer number of sensor pairs with small spacing d. It is named as the thermos array because its shape seems like a thermos. Although the resulting difference coarray (DCA) of the thermos array is not hole-free, a large filled rectangular part in the DCA can be facilitated to perform spatial-smoothing-based DOA estimation. Moreover, it enjoys closed-form expressions for the sensor locations and the number of available degrees of freedom. Simulations show that the thermos array can achieve better DOA estimation performance than the hourglass array in the presence of mutual coupling, which indicates that our thermos array is more robust to the mutual-coupling array.

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