Presented By: Ercherio Marpaung (14S15056) Dewi Fortuna Simangunsong (14S15007)
Presented By: Ercherio Marpaung (14S15056) Dewi Fortuna Simangunsong (14S15007)
• CONCLUDING REMARKS
DIRECTION-OF-ARRIVAL (DOA) estimation has been a popular research field in array processing for
several
decades. This problem aims to estimate the source directions from sensor measurements. It arises in
many practical scenarios such as radio astronomy, radar, imaging, and communications. DOA
estimators such as MUSIC, ESPRIT, MODE , and SPICE, to name a few have been developed for this
purpose. These estimators are
functional for ULAs. It is known that, for an ULA with N physical sensors, these DOA estimators can
identify at most N − 1 uncorrelated sources
Another family of DOA estimators is applicable to sparse arrays, where the sensors are placed
nonuniformly. Some well known sparse arrays include minimum redundancy arrays,mnested arrays, and
coprime arrays. All these arrays have O(N2 ) consecutive elements in the difference coarray, with N being
the number of physical sensors. Due to this property, sparse arrays can identifyO(N2 ) uncorrelated sources
using N physical sensors and they lead to better spatial resolution than ULAs. DOA estimators for sparse
arrays consist of the augmented covariance matrix method, positive definite Toeplitz completion,spatial
smoothing MUSIC (SS MUSIC), dictionary methods and gridless approaches
The elegant concept of correlation subspaces was proposed by Rahmani and Atia, to improve DOA estimation
in a number of ways. For any given array geometry, the correlation subspace is uniquely determined, and
imposes some implicit constraints on the structure of the covariance, as we shall see. This subspace can be
utilized in denoising the sample covariance matrix. Then the source directions are estimated from the denoised
covariance matrix using off-the-shelf DOA estimators, such as the MUSIC algorithm. Note that the correlation
subspace depends on the array configurations and prior knowledge about the sources but is independent of the
choice of DOA estimators. Hence, a broad class of DOA estimators are applicable to the denoised covariance
matrix. However, the explicit expressions for the correlation subspace were not known, so its approximationwas
computed numerically. Furthermore, theway in which the correlation subspace is influenced by the array
configuration, and by partial knowledge about sources, was not explored.
The original work on correlation subspaces did not emphasize any knowledge about the sources
except that they are uncorrelated.
1. We show how to incorporate prior knowledge about source intervals with generalized
correlation subspaces. Furthermore, correlation subspaces for 1D and 2D arrays were analyzed
numerically in [while our work provides closed-form characterizations of generalized correlation
subspaces for 1D and multidimensional arrays.
2. Finally, in our work, covariance matrix denoising using the generalized correlation subspace is
implemented more efficiently than that in
Assume that D monochromatic sources impinge on an onedimensional sensor array
The sensor locations are ‘nd’, where n belongs to an integer set S ⊂Z, d = λ/2, and λ is the wavelength.
Let θi ∈[−π/2,π/2] be the DOA of the ith source
The normalized DOA of the i th source is defined as θi =(d/λ)sinθi ∈[−1/2,1/2].
It is assumed that the sources and noise are zero-mean and uncorrelated.
Namely,lets =[A1,...,AD,𝑛𝑆𝑇 ]T THEN E[s]= 0 E[ss] = diag(p1,...,pD,pn,...,pn),
&
Rearranging thematrix
The covariance elements leads
of xS to expressed as
can be
∗
The final stage is to perform DOA estimation on 𝑅𝑝1 It was shown in [M. Rahmani and G. K.
Atia, “A subspace method for array covariance matrix estimation,” in Proc. IEEE Sensor
Array Multichannel Signal Process. Workshop, Jul. 2016, pp. 1–5.] that, the MUSIC algorithm
∗
on 𝑅𝑝1 can exhibit better estimation performance than that on Rs. It should be noted that the
DOA estimators are not restricted to the MUSIC algorithm. Other estimators, such as
ESPRIT, MODE, and SPICE, can also be exploited. This result shows that the structure of
the covariance matrix, as specified by the correlation subspace, helps to improve the
estimation performance.
Summarizing, the DOA estimator associated with the correlation subspace is
composed of the following three steps
Step 2: Denoising.
VS
In this case, the entry of SD(1[− 1/2,1/2]) associated withcoarray locations m1,m2 ∈ D becomes
indicates that the matrix 𝐉𝐖 −1/2 Type equation here. corresponds to the orthonormal
eigenvectors while the diagonal matrix W is associated with the eigenvalues. In particular,
the positive eigenvalues and the associated eigenvectors of S(1[−1/2,1/2]) are given by
Properties of S(1[−1/2,1/2]): The following list some properties regarding the eigen-structure of S(1[−1/2,1/2]).
Some items are direct consequences of the properties of the weight function w(m), as in [46,
Lemma 1]
the generalized correlation subspace GCS(1[−1/2,1/2]) becomes
Hole-Free Difference Coarrays and I = [θmin, θmax]: Let us consider another scenario where
the known interval is notccentered around the origin, such as [θmin, θmax] with −0.5 <θmin < θmax
< 0.5. In this case, the density function can be
the generalized correlation subspace
NUMERICAL EXAMPLE
Generalized Correlation Subspaces