Wideband DoA estimation based on joint optimisation of array and spatial sparsity

Abstract

We study the problem of wideband direction of arrival (DoA) estimation by joint optimisation of array and spatial sparsity. Two-step iterative process is proposed. In the first step, the wideband signal is reshaped and used as the input to derive the weight coefficients using a sparse array optimisation method. The weights are then used to scale the observed signal model for which a compressive sensing based spatial sparsity optimisation method is used for DoA estimation. Simulations are provided to demonstrate the performance of the proposed method for both stationary and moving sources.