An Efficient Direction of Arrival Estimation Algorithm for Sources with Intersecting Signature in the Time–Frequency Domain

Abstract

An efficient direction of arrival estimation method is proposed. The proposed algorithm accurately estimates the instantaneous frequency of signals received by multiple sensors (array of sensors/antennas). The estimated instantaneous frequency is then used to separate sources and estimate their direction of arrivals. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method achieves better performance than the existing methods both in terms of computational requirements and localization accuracy. It is also shown that the proposed method can work in under-determined situations.

Keywords

• amplitude modulation–frequency modulation (AM-FM)
• crossing components
• direction of arrival estimation
• instantaneous frequency
• time–frequency