Direction Finding of Conical Conformal Arrays
Wu Minjie, Huang Jingjian, Tianzhen Meng, Tao Xie, Yuan Naichnag · 2018
In this correspondence, the manifold of conical conformal array geometry is modeled. And the direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation of this conformal array is based on geometric algebra. Compared with traditional methods, such as Euler rotation angle, the proposed one largely decreases the computational burden and avoids the cumbersome matrix transformations. Monte-Carlo simulations demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is effective in direction finding for conical conformal arrays.