Compressive beamforming

Abstract

Sound source localization with sensor arrays involves the estimation of the direction-of-arrival (DOA) from a limited number of observations. Compressive sensing (CS) solves such underdetermined problems achieving sparsity, thus improved resolution, and can be solved efficiently with convex optimization. The DOA estimation problem is formulated in the CS framework and it is shown that CS has superior performance compared to traditional DOA estimation methods especially under challenging scenarios such as coherent arrivals and single-snapshot data. An offset and resolution analysis is performed to indicate the limitations of CS. It is shown that the limitations are related to the beampattern, thus can be predicted. The high-resolution capabilities and the robustness of CS are demonstrated on experimental array data from ocean acoustic measurements for source tracking with single-snapshot data.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2014
Source ID
10.1121/1.4883360

Entities

People

  • Angeliki Xenaki
  • Klaus Mosegaard
  • Peter Gerstoft

Organizations

  • Office of Naval Research
  • Technical University of Denmark
  • University of California, San Diego

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Operations Research
  • Phased Array Antenna Design.