Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (2): 352-359.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2023.02.04

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Gridless DOA estimation for non-redundant array at low SNR

Ning WANG1,2,3,*, Xiaode LYU1,2, Miaomiao LI1,2,3   

  1. 1. Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
    2. National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, Beijing 100190, China
    3. School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2022-02-24 Online:2023-01-13 Published:2023-02-04
  • Contact: Ning WANG

Abstract:

Direction of arrival (DOA) is a nonlinear parameter in the array signal processing model, and its estimation deviates from the true value when the signal-to-noise ratio is low. In order to lower the threshold of this problem in gridless DOA estimation method, a method based on gridless sparse iterative covariance-based estimation (SPICE) is introduced. A maximum likelihood root multiple signal classification (ML-Root-MUSIC) is introduced to calculate DOA, which uses ML criterion to select roots and can lower the threshold and get better resolution characteristic. A negative entropy term is added to the optimization problem in the original gridless SPICE, so that the root mean square error curve of gridless SPICE is closer to Cramer-Rao lower bound in large-snapshot case. Finally, Monte Carlo simulation experiments verify that the proposed method is better than the competing methods for non-redundant arrays at low signal-to-noise ratio.

Key words: direction of arrival (DOA) estimation, non-redundant array, low signal to noise ratio (SNR), gridless

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