High Resolution DOA Estimation Using Second-Order Differential of MUSIC Spectrum

  • Authors:

  • Koichi Ichige;Yoshihisa Ishikawa;Hiroyuki Arai

  • Affiliations:

  • The authors are with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama-shi, 240--8501 Japan. E-mail: koichi@ynu.ac.jp,;The authors are with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama-shi, 240--8501 Japan. E-mail: koichi@ynu.ac.jp,;The authors are with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama-shi, 240--8501 Japan. E-mail: koichi@ynu.ac.jp,

  • Venue:
  • IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper presents a simple but high resolution DOA estimation method using second-order differential of MUSIC spectrum. MUSIC method is paid attention as one of "Superresolution" DOA estimation methods because of their brilliant characteristics, however MUSIC also has the problem of estimation accuracy in severe environments like low SNR, small number of snapshots, or incident waves from closely-spaced angles. Especially the case of two or more incident waves from closely-spaced angles, MUSIC often fails in making spectrum peaks that leads inaccurate DOA estimation. We pay attention to the fact that the second-order differential of MUSIC spectrum makes negative peaks around the original DOAs even when MUSIC spectrum does not make peaks there. We try to estimate DOAs not by MUSIC spectrum but by the second-order differential of the MUSIC spectrum, and to find its peaks for being estimated DOAs. The performance of the present method is evaluated in compared with MUSIC and Root-MUSIC methods through computer simulations and experiments.