Joint diagonalization based 2D DOA estimation for mixed circular and strictly noncircular sources
Hua Chen, Chunping Hou, Wei‐Ping Zhu, Wei Liu, Yang‐Yang Dong, Qing‐Wen Wang · 2017
In this paper, a two-dimensional (2-D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation method for a mixture of circular and strictly noncircular signals is presented based on a uniform rectangular array (URA). By exploiting the second-order non-circularity of incoming signals, a computationally effective ESPRIT-like method is developed to estimate the 2-D DOAs of mixed sources. The proposed method can automatically pair the estimated DOAs by joint diagonalization of two direction matrices. It can also solve the angle ambiguity problem when multiple incoming signals have the same angle θ or β. Simulation results are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.