Abstract
Aiming at the problem of multiple-source direction of arrival (DOA) tracking in impulse noise, this paper models the impulse noise by using the symmetric α stable (SαS) distribution, and proposes a DOA tracking algorithm based on the Unscented Transform Multi-target Multi-Bernoulli (UT-MeMBer) filter framework. In order to overcome the problem of particle decay in particle filtering, UT is adopted to select a group of sigma points with different weights to make them close to the posterior probability density of the state. Since the α stable distribution does not have finite covariance, the Fractional Lower Order Moment (FLOM) matrix of the received array data is employed to replace the covariance matrix to formulate a MUSIC spatial spectra in the MeMBer filter. Further exponential weighting is used to enhance the weight of particles at high likelihood area and obtain a better resampling. Compared with the PASTD algorithm and the MeMBer DOA filter algorithm, the simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can more effectively solve the issue that the DOA and number of target are time-varying. In addition, we present the Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) implementation of the UT-MeMBer algorithm.
Highlights
Multi-target Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation is an essential issue in array processing and has a wide range of applications in source location, radar, sonar, and wireless communications [1,2]
Since the traditional MUSIC algorithm cannot solve the multi-source tracking problem when target number is varying, this paper uses Fractional Lower Order Moment (FLOM) matrix to substitute the covariance matrix to obtain the corresponding MUSIC spatial spectrum, which can be as the particle likelihood function
We proposed a UT-Multi-target Multi-Bernoulli (MeMBer) DOA tracking algorithm under random finite set (RFS) framework, which can be named as UT-MB-FLOM-MUSIC algorithm
Summary
Multi-target Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation is an essential issue in array processing and has a wide range of applications in source location, radar, sonar, and wireless communications [1,2]. In [19], the author considers the particle filtering method to estimate the single target DOA by using the spatial spectral function based on FLOM matrix as the likelihood function in the impulse noise environment. Those algorithms needs to know the number of targets in advance and cannot deal with the estimation problem of the time-varying sources DOA. Choppala P B et al studied the Bayesian multi-target tracking problem based on phased array sensor, and proposed the MUSIC spatial spectral as a pseudo-likelihood in the Multi-Bernoulli filter in [24].
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