Prior-exploiting Direction-of-Arrival algorithms for partially uncorrelated source signals》.pdf

Signal Processing 109 (2015) 182–192 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Signal Processing journal homepage: /locate/sigpro Prior-exploiting Direction-of-Arrival algorithms for partially uncorrelated source signals $ Petter Wirfält n, Magnus Jansson ACCESS Linnaeus Center, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Signal Processing, Osquldas v 10,100 44 Stockholm, Sweden a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: In this article, we investigate the performance of the recently proposed Direction-Of- Received 30 November 2013 Arrival (DOA) estimator POWDER (Prior Orthogonally Weighted Direction EstimatoR). The Received in revised form method is exploiting a specific form of prior information, namely that some DOAs are 6 May 2014 known, as well as that the correlation state between some of the source signals is known. Accepted 6 August 2014 In such scenarios, it is desirable to exploit the prior information already in the estimator Available online 23 September 2014 design such that the knowledge can benefit the estimation of the DOAs of the unknown Keywords: sources. Accuracy Through an asymptotical statistical analysis, we find closed form expressions for the Arrays accuracy of the method. We also derive the relevant Cramér–Rao Bound, and we show the Covariance matrix Direction of