Signal Location Using Generalized Linear Constraints

Abstract

This report has presented a two-part method for estimating the directions of arrival of uncorrelated narrowband sources when there are arbitrary phase errors and angle independent gain errors. The signal steering vectors are estimated in the first part of the method; in the second part, the arrival directions are estimated. It should be noted that the second part of the method can be tailored to incorporate additional information about the nature of the phase errors. For example, if the phase errors are known to be caused solely by element misplacement, the element locations can be estimated concurrently with the DOA's by trying to match the theoretical steering vectors to the estimated ones. Simulation results suggest that, for general perturbation, the method can resolve closely spaced sources under conditions for which a standard high-resolution DOA method such as MUSIC fails.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA249580

Entities

People

  • D. D. Feldman
  • Lloyd J. Griffiths

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

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  • Abstracts
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  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Far Field
  • High Resolution
  • Mathematics
  • Military Research
  • Perturbations
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Steering

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  • Engineering

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Statistical inference.

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