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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

High-order cumulants based sparse array design via fractal geometries—Part I: Structures and DOFs

Z Yang, Q Shen, W Liu, YC Eldar… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Array structures based on the high-order difference co-array concept provide a large number
of degrees of freedom, but are typically difficult to design under multiple optimality criteria. In …

Dilated nested arrays with more degrees of freedom (DOFs) and less mutual coupling—part I: The fundamental geometry

AMA Shaalan, J Du, YH Tu - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent criteria of a preferable linear sparse array for a robust direction of arrival (DOA)
estimation are: the closed-form expression for its sensor locations; the large central uniform …