Extended Coprime Arrays with Sum-Difference Coarray for DOA Estimation

Abstract

A modified coprime array (CA) with a name of extended CA (ECA) is presented and constructed to reduce over-lapping sensors between sum and difference coarray using conventional CA (CCA) to get a sum-difference coarray with high degrees- of-freedoms (DOFs). The devised ECA is to shift a sub array of CCA to reduce redundancy and then to flip part of shifted sub array around zero point that is regarded as symmetric center. The onstructed ECA expands the inter-element separations with lower mutual coupling. Numerical simulation are provided to verify superiority of the devised ECA.