Two-Dimensional Direction-of-Arrival Estimation of Noncircular Signals in Coprime Planar Array with High Degree of Freedom

Abstract

In estimating the two-dimensional (2D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) using a coprime planar array, there are problems of the limited degree of freedom (DOF) and high complexity caused by the spectral peak search. We utilize the time-domain characteristics of signals and present a high DOF algorithm with low complexity based on the noncircular signals. The paper first analyzes the covariance matrix and ellipse covariance matrix of the received signals, vectorizes these matrices, and then constructs the received data of a virtual uniform rectangular array (URA). 2D spatial smoothing processing is applied to calculate the covariance of the virtual URA. Finally, the paper presents an algorithm using 2D multiple signal classification and an improved algorithm using unitary estimating signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques, where the latter solves the closed-form solutions of DOAs replacing the spectral peak search to reduce the complexity. The simulation experiments demonstrate that the proposed algorithms obtain the high DOF and enable to estimate the underdetermined signals. Furthermore, both two proposed algorithms can acquire the high accuracy.