Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (9): 2690-2697.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2023.09.06

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Direct position determination method of fourth-order cumulant for noncircular signals

Jie DENG1, Jiexin YIN1,2,*, Bin YANG1   

  1. 1. College of Information System Engineering, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
    2. National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technology Research Center, Zhengzhou 450002, China
  • Received:2022-01-11 Online:2023-08-30 Published:2023-09-05
  • Contact: Jiexin YIN

Abstract:

To solve the problems of insufficient aperture expansion and data redundancy of the existing direct position determination (DPD) based on fourth-order accumulation, a fourth-order cumulative direct positioning method for the noncircular signal with maximum noncircularity rate is proposed. Based on the positioning scenario of the mobile array observing the target in multiple time slots, this method constructs a series of de-redundant fourth-order cumulative matrices. It combines the non-circular characteristics of the radiation source signal and uses the array receiving data and conjugate data to form an extended data model, which realizes the array aperture expansion and increases the equivalent array element number, thereby improving the positioning performance and rapidly extracting the redundant data through reconstruction, which greatly reduces the matrix operation dimension. Due to the combination of the fourth-order cumulative quantity and non-circular characteristics of the signal, the algorithm is suitable for complex environments where the number of sources is greater than the number of array elements and the pattern color noise. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the algorithm has the advantages of small computation amount, high estimation accuracy and high resolution, and can reach the corresponding Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) under high signal-to-noise ratio conditions.

Key words: direct position determination (DPD), fourth-order cumulant, signal with maximum noncircularity rate, single moving observer

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