scholarly journals An Improved Trilinear Model-Based Angle Estimation Method for Co-Prime Planar Arrays

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 4180
Author(s):  
Chenxi Guo ◽  
Xinhong Hao ◽  
Ping Li

Angle estimation methods in two-dimensional co-prime planar arrays have been discussed mainly based on peak searching and sparse recovery. Peak searching methods suffer from heavy computational complexity and sparse recovery methods face some problems in selecting the regularization parameters. In this paper, we propose an improved trilinear model-based method for angle estimation for co-prime planar arrays in the view of trilinear decomposition, namely parallel factor analysis. Due to the principle of trilinear decomposition, our method does not require peak searching and can conduct auto-pairing easily, which can reduce the computational loads and avoid parameter selection problems. Furthermore, we exploit the virtual array concept of the whole co-prime planar array through the cross-correlation matrix obtained from the received signal data and present a matrix reconstruction method using the Khatri–Rao product to tackle the matrix rank deficiency problem in the virtual array condition. The simulation results show that our proposed method can not only achieve high estimation accuracy with low complexity compared to other similar approaches, but also utilize limited sensor number to implement the angle estimation tasks.

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Y. Zhang ◽  
B. P. Wang ◽  
Y. Fang ◽  
Z. X. Song

The existing sparse imaging observation error estimation methods are to usually estimate the error of each observation position by substituting the error parameters into the iterative reconstruction process, which has a huge calculation cost. In this paper, by analysing the relationship between imaging results of single-observation sampling data and error parameters, a SAR observation error estimation method based on maximum relative projection matching is proposed. First, the method estimates the precise position parameters of the reference position by the sparse reconstruction method of joint error parameters. Second, a relative error estimation model is constructed based on the maximum correlation of base-space projection. Finally, the accurate error parameters are estimated by the Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno method. Simulation and measured data of microwave anechoic chambers show that, compared to the existing methods, the proposed method has higher estimation accuracy, lower noise sensitivity, and higher computational efficiency.


2013 ◽  
Vol 347-350 ◽  
pp. 1033-1038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Fei Zhang ◽  
Jian Feng Li ◽  
Ming Zhou ◽  
De Ben

In this paper, we address the transmit angle and receive angle estimation problem for a bistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar. This paper links MIMO radar angle estimation problem to the compressed sensing trilinear model. Exploiting this link, it derives a compressed sensing trilinear model-based angle estimation algorithm, which can obtain automatically paired two-dimensional angle estimation. The proposed algorithm requires no spectral peak searching or pair matching, and it has better angle estimation performance than conventional algorithms including estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques (ESPRIT) algorithm. Simulation results illustrate performance of the algorithm.


Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 4465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianfeng Li ◽  
Zheng Li ◽  
Xiaofei Zhang

In this paper, the issue of direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is discussed, and a partial angular sparse representation (SR)-based method using a sparse separate nested acoustic vector sensor (SSN-AVS) array is developed. Traditional AVS array is improved by separating the pressure sensor array and velocity sensor array into two different sparse array geometries with nested relationship. This improved array geometry can achieve large degrees of freedom (DOF) after the extended vectorization of the cross-covariance matrix, and only partial SR of the angle is required by exploiting the cyclic phase ambiguity caused by the large inter-element spacing of the virtual array. Joint sparse recovery is developed to amend the grid offset and unitary transformation is utilized to transform the complex atoms into real-valued ones. After sparse recovery, the sparse vector can simultaneously provide high-resolution but ambiguous angle estimation and unambiguous reference angle estimation embedded in the AVS array, and they are combined to obtain unique and high-resolution DOA estimation. Compared to other state-of-the-art DOA estimation methods using the AVS array, the proposed algorithm can provide better DOA estimation performance while requiring lower complexity. Multiple simulation results verify the effectiveness of the approach.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Jianfeng Li ◽  
Xiong Xu ◽  
Ping Li ◽  
Qiting Zhang

A partial dictionary based direction of arrival (DOA) estimation method which addresses the off-grid problem and exploits combined coprime and nested array (CCNA) is proposed. Compared to general coprime array, CCNA yields two sparse coprime subarrays in the coarray domain by adding a third subarray in the physical-array domain. To ensure the DOA estimation performance, the subarray with larger aperture is chosen, and the cyclic phase ambiguity caused by the sparse subarray allows partial dictionary covering arbitrary cycle to represent the whole atoms, and then, the off-grid sparse reconstruction method is developed to amend the grid mismatch. After the sparse recovery and off-grid compensation, ambiguous DOA estimations can be eliminated by substituting the estimations into the whole virtual array. Multiple simulations verify that the proposed algorithm outperforms the other state-of-the-art methods in terms of DOA estimation accuracy and angular resolution.


2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (05) ◽  
pp. 1650043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu Li ◽  
Weihua Lv ◽  
Xiaofei Zhang ◽  
Dazhuan Xu

In this paper, we address the problem of angle estimation in a bistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar which exploits nonuniform linear array at both the transmitter and the receiver with small number of antennas. It is demonstrated that the conventional trilinear decomposition-based angle estimation algorithm can identify only a comparatively small number of targets under this condition. In order to increase the number of identifiable targets, we derive an expanded trilinear decomposition-based angle estimation algorithm for MIMO radar, which can expand the size of the trilinear model. The proposed algorithm not only has the advantages of not requiring spectral peak searching, nor additional pair matching and being suitable for nonuniform arrays, but also identifies more targets than the conventional trilinear decomposition-based angle estimation algorithm under the same conditions. Moreover, the angle estimation performance of the proposed algorithm is better than that of the conventional trilinear decomposition-based angle estimation algorithm and the estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques (ESPRIT) algorithm. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness and improvement of the proposed algorithm.


Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Shi ◽  
Qunfei Zhang ◽  
Weijie Tan ◽  
Linlin Mao ◽  
Lihuan Huang ◽  
...  

In underwater acoustic signal processing, direction of arrival (DOA) estimation can provide important information for target tracking and localization. To address underdetermined wideband signal processing in underwater passive detection system, this paper proposes a novel underdetermined wideband DOA estimation method equipped with the nested array (NA) using focused atomic norm minimization (ANM), where the signal source number detection is accomplished by information theory criteria. In the proposed DOA estimation method, especially, after vectoring the covariance matrix of each frequency bin, each corresponding obtained vector is focused into the predefined frequency bin by focused matrix. Then, the collected averaged vector is considered as virtual array model, whose steering vector exhibits the Vandermonde structure in terms of the obtained virtual array geometries. Further, the new covariance matrix is recovered based on ANM by semi-definite programming (SDP), which utilizes the information of the Toeplitz structure. Finally, the Root-MUSIC algorithm is applied to estimate the DOAs. Simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms other underdetermined DOA estimation methods based on information theory in term of higher estimation accuracy.


2014 ◽  
Vol 556-562 ◽  
pp. 3380-3383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu Li ◽  
Xiao Fei Zhang

In this paper, we make study on the compressed matrices in the compressed sensing trilinear model-based angle estimation algorithm, whose complexity is lower than conventional trilinear decomposition-based method, due to the use of compressed matrices. And we take the problem of angle estimation for bistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar as an example. Simulation results can provide reference for the choice of compressed matrices.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Te Chen ◽  
Long Chen ◽  
Xing Xu ◽  
Yingfeng Cai ◽  
Haobin Jiang ◽  
...  

Accurate estimation of longitudinal force and sideslip angle is significant to stability control of four-wheel independent driven electric vehicle. The observer design problem for the longitudinal force and sideslip angle estimation is investigated in this work. The electric driving wheel model is introduced into the longitudinal force estimation, considering the longitudinal force is the unknown input of the system, the proportional integral observer is applied to restructure the differential equation of longitudinal force, and the extended Kalman filter is utilized to estimate the unbiased longitudinal force. Using the estimated longitudinal force, considering the unknown disturbances and uncertainties of vehicle model, the robust sideslip angle estimator is proposed based on vehicle dynamics model. Moreover, the recursive least squares algorithm with forgetting factor is applied to vehicle state estimation based on the vehicle kinematics model. In order to integrate the advantages of the dynamics-model-based observer and kinematics-model-based observer and improve adaptability of observer system in complex working conditions, a vehicle sideslip angle fusion estimation strategy is proposed. The simulations and experiments are implemented and the performance of proposed estimation method is validated.


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