Abstract:

Owing to the effects of a change in the surface curvature of conformal carriers, the direction of arrival (DOA) and polarization are coupled with each other in the conformal array manifold, which increases the difficulties to parameter estimation. A polarization sensitive conformal array is structured with crossed dipole elements and its data model is built. On the basis of that, a multiple parameter estimation algorithm is proposed. In the algorithm, multi-dimensional searching is avoided by employing the special coordinate configuration, hence the computational burden is well controlled and the algorithm can be easily extended to other single curvature structures. Monte Carlo simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.