The robust covariation-based MUSIC (ROC-MUSIC) algorithm forbearing estimation in impulsive noise environments

  • Authors:
  • P. Tsakalides;C.L. Nikias

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

This paper presents a new subspace-based method for bearing estimation in the presence of impulsive noise which can be modeled as a complex symmetric alpha-stable (SαS) process. We define the covariation matrix of the array sensor outputs and show that eigendecomposition-based methods, such as the MUSIC algorithm, can be applied to the sample covariation matrix to extract the bearing information from the measurements. A consistent estimator for the marginals of the covariation matrix is presented and its asymptotic performance is studied. The improved performance of the proposed source localization method in the presence of a wide range of impulsive noise environments is demonstrated via Monte Carlo experiments