Group sparsity based wideband DOA estimation for co-prime arrays

Abstract

A novel wideband direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation method is proposed for co-prime arrays. After decomposing the wideband signals into different frequencies/subbands through a discrete Fourier transform or, more generally, a filter bank system, the increased degrees of freedom provided by co-prime arrays are fully exploited with a group sparsity based signal reconstruction method. Simulation results show that this novel method can distinguish much more sources than the number of physical sensors. Compared with the existing narrowband DOA estimation method for co-prime arrays, the proposed wideband method achieves a significant performance improvement.