Improved coherent DOA estimation algorithm for uniform linear arrays
Xiaofei Zhang, Dazhuan Xu · International Journal of Electronics · 2008
An improved algorithm on coherent direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is presented in this article, with the objective to overcome the unsatisfactory performances of estimation of signal parameter via rotational invariance techniques (ESPRIT)-like algorithms (Han and Zhang, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 2005;4:443–446). On the basis of trilinear model by reconstructing a series of Toeplitz matrix from the co-variance matrix of array output, our proposed algorithm is to resolve the DOAs of coherent signals, which not only has much better DOA estimation performance than algorithms of ESPRIT-like and multi-invariance ESPRIT but also identifies more DOAs than ESPRIT-like algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate its validity.