7 research outputs found
Gridless Two-dimensional DOA Estimation With L-shaped Array Based on the Cross-covariance Matrix
The atomic norm minimization (ANM) has been successfully incorporated into
the two-dimensional (2-D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation problem for
super-resolution. However, its computational workload might be unaffordable
when the number of snapshots is large. In this paper, we propose two gridless
methods for 2-D DOA estimation with L-shaped array based on the atomic norm to
improve the computational efficiency. Firstly, by exploiting the
cross-covariance matrix an ANM-based model has been proposed. We then prove
that this model can be efficiently solved as a semi-definite programming (SDP).
Secondly, a modified model has been presented to improve the estimation
accuracy. It is shown that our proposed methods can be applied to both uniform
and sparse L-shaped arrays and do not require any knowledge of the number of
sources. Furthermore, since our methods greatly reduce the model size as
compared to the conventional ANM method, and thus are much more efficient.
Simulations results are provided to demonstrate the advantage of our methods
Alternating projections gridless covariance-based estimation for DOA
We present a gridless sparse iterative covariance-based estimation method
based on alternating projections for direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. The
gridless DOA estimation is formulated in the reconstruction of
Toeplitz-structured low rank matrix, and is solved efficiently with alternating
projections. The method improves resolution by achieving sparsity, deals with
single-snapshot data and coherent arrivals, and, with co-prime arrays,
estimates more DOAs than the number of sensors. We evaluate the proposed method
using simulation results focusing on co-prime arrays.Comment: 5 pages, accepted by (ICASSP 2021) 2021 IEEE International Conference
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A covariance matrix reconstruction approach for single snapshot direction of arrival estimation
Achieving accurate single snapshot direction of arrival (DOA) information significantly improves communication performance. This paper investigates an accurate and high-resolution DOA estimation technique by enabling single snapshot data collection and enhancing DOA estimation results compared to multiple snapshot methods. This is carried out by manipulating the incoming signal covariance matrix while suppressing undesired additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) by actively updating and estimating the antenna array manifold vector. We demonstrated the estimation performance in simulation that our proposed technique supersedes the estimation performance of existing state-of-the-art techniques in various signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) scenarios and single snapshot sampling environments. Our proposed covariance-based single snapshot (CbSS) technique yields the lowest root-mean-squared error (RMSE) against the true DOA compared to root-MUSIC and the partial relaxation (PR) approach for multiple snapshots and a single signal source environment. In addition, our proposed technique presents the lowest DOA estimation performance degradation in a multiple uncorrelated and coherent signal source environment by up to 25.5% with nearly negligible bias. Lastly, our proposed CbSS technique presents the best DOA estimation results for a single snapshot and single-source scenario with an RMSE of 0.05° against the true DOA compared to root-MUSIC and the PR approach with nearly negligible bias as well. A potential application for CbSS would be in a scenario where accurate DOA estimation with a small antenna array form factor is a limitation, such as in the intelligent transportation system industry and wireless communication