Direction-of-Arrival Estimation of Virtual Array Signals Based on Doppler Effect

摘要

The estimation accuracy of direction-of-departure (DOD) and direction-of-arrival (DOA) is reduced because of Doppler shifts caused by the high-speed moving sources. In this paper, an improved DOA estimation method which combines the forward-backward spatial smoothing (FBSS) technique with the MUSIC algorithm is proposed for virtual MIMO array signals in high mobility scenarios. Theoretical analysis and experiment results demonstrate that the resolution capability can be significantly improved by using the proposed method compared to the MUSIC algorithm for the moving sources with limited array elements, especially the DOA which can still be accurately estimated when the sources are much closely spaced.