Direction finding in partly calibrated sensor arrays composed of multiple subarrays

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing - Tập 50 Số 9 - Trang 2103-2115 - 2002
M. Pesavento1,2, A.B. Gershman1, K.M. Wong1
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont., Canada
2Department of Electrical Engineering, Ruhr University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Tóm tắt

We consider the direction-finding problem in partly calibrated arrays composed of several calibrated and identically oriented (but possibly nonidentical) subarrays that are displaced by unknown (and possibly time-varying) vector translations. A new search-free eigenstructure-based direction-finding approach is proposed for such class of sensor arrays. It is referred to as the rank-reduction (RARE) estimator and enjoys simple implementation that entails computing the eigendecomposition of the sample array covariance matrix and polynomial rooting. Closed-form expressions for the deterministic Cramer-Rao bounds (CRBs) on direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation for the considered class of sensor arrays are derived. Comparison of these expressions with simulation results show that the finite-sample performance of RARE algorithms in both time-invariant and time-varying array cases is close to the corresponding bounds. Moreover, comparisons of the derived CRBs with the well-known bounds for the fully calibrated time-invariant array case help to discover several interesting properties of DOA estimation in partly calibrated and time-varying arrays.

Từ khóa

#Sensor arrays #Direction of arrival estimation #Navigation #Polynomials #Calibration #Signal processing algorithms #Covariance matrix #Closed-form solution #Computational modeling #Narrowband

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