Augmented covariance matrix reconstruction for DOA estimation using difference coarray

Z Zheng, Y Huang, WQ Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As is well known, nonuniform linear arrays have significant advantages in array aperture
and degrees of freedom over uniform linear arrays. Using their difference coarrays …

A review of closed-form Cramér-Rao bounds for DOA estimation in the presence of Gaussian noise under a unified framework

Y Liang, W Liu, Q Shen, W Cui, S Wu - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Cramér-Rao Bound (CRB) for direction of arrival (DOA) estimation has been extensively
studied over the past four decades, with a plethora of CRB expressions reported for various …

Padded coprime arrays for improved DOA estimation: Exploiting hole representation and filling strategies

W Zheng, X Zhang, Y Wang, J Shen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a generalized coprime array structure, the coprime array with displaced subarrays
(CADiS) allows a large minimum inter-element spacing by introducing a specific …

ULA fitting for sparse array design

W Shi, SA Vorobyov, Y Li - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing sparse array (SA) geometries, such as coprime and nested arrays, can be regarded
as a concatenation of two uniform linear arrays (ULAs). Such arrays lead to a significant …

Enhanced DOA estimation exploiting multi-frequency sparse array

S Zhang, A Ahmed, YD Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we develop a general framework of multi-frequency sparse array to estimate
the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of a significantly higher number of targets than the number of …

Enhanced and generalized coprime array for direction of arrival estimation

J Shi, F Wen, Y Liu, Z Liu, P Hu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to the large degrees of freedom and reduced mutual coupling by generating
difference coarrays, nonuniform linear arrays have aroused great interest in direction of …

Sidelobe reductions of antenna arrays via an improved chicken swarm optimization approach

S Liang, Z Fang, G Sun, Y Liu, G Qu, Y Zhang - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Antenna arrays are able to improve the directivity performance and reduce the cost of
wireless communication systems. However, how to reduce the maximum sidelobe level …

Improved uniform linear array fitting scheme with increased lower bound on uniform degrees of freedom for DOA estimation

W Shi, Y Li - IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, a uniform linear array (ULA) fitting (UF) principle is proposed for sparse array (SA)
design using pseudo-polynomial equations. Typically, it is verified that the designed SAs via …

Simplified and enhanced multiple level nested arrays exploiting high-order difference co-arrays

Q Shen, W Liu, W Cui, S Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Based on the high-order difference co-array concept, an enhanced four-level nested array
(E-FL-NA) is first proposed, which optimizes the consecutive lags at the fourth-order …

Augmented multi-subarray dilated nested array with enhanced degrees of freedom and reduced mutual coupling

H Chen, H Lin, W Liu, Q Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sparse linear arrays (SLAs) can be designed in a systematic way, with the ability for
underdetermined DOA estimation where a greater number of sources can be detected than …