Two-dimensional DOA estimation of coherent signals using acoustic vector sensor array

  • Authors:
  • P. Palanisamy;N. Kalyanasundaram;P. M. Swetha

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli 620015, India;Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida 201307, India;Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli 620015, India

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we present two new methods for estimating two-dimensional (2-D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) of narrowband coherent (or highly correlated) signals using an L-shaped array of acoustic vector sensors. We decorrelate the coherency of the signals and reconstruct the signal subspace using cross-correlation matrix, and then the ESPRIT and propagator methods are applied to estimate the azimuth and elevation angles. The ESPRIT technique is based on the shift invariance property of array geometry and the propagator method is based on partitioning of the cross-correlation matrix. The propagator method is computationally efficient and requires only linear operations. Moreover, it does not require any eigendecomposition or singular-value decomposition as for the ESPRIT method. These two techniques are direct methods which do not require any 2-D iterative search for estimating the azimuth and the elevation angles. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed methods.