摘要
本文提出了一种适用于均匀圆阵的相干信源空间谱估计的方法。它利用空间预处理技术,将阵元空间的均匀圆阵变换成相位模式空间内的虚拟均匀线阵。通过将均匀线阵的空间平滑技术和增强平滑技术应用于该虚拟阵,可获得文中的模式平滑算法。该算法仅利用一维搜索就可使均匀圆阵具有检测相干信源的能力,避免了将圆阵看成是一般平面阵时所必须的多维搜索,减少了计算量。计算机模拟结果证明了该算法的正确性和有效性。
A novel method to estimate DOAs of coherent sources impinging on an uniform circular array(UCA) is presented in this paper. A virtual uniform linear array(VULA) is first derived by DFT preprocessing, transforming the UCA from element space to phase mode space which is special for circular arrays, and then the well-known spatial smoothing technique is applied to the VULA so that the decreased rank of covariance matrix due to coherence can be retrieved. Simulation results have strongly verified the effectiveness of the algorithm.
关键词
模式空间
虚拟线阵
空间平滑
信号处理
Mode space, Virtual uniform linear array, Spatial smoothing
