A Robust Multi Sample Compressive Sensing Technique for DOA Estimation Using Sparse Antenna Array

In this paper, a multi sample compressive sensing (CS) technique is presented for the direction of arrival (DOA) estimation using sparse antenna array that has applications in several fields including radars and sonars. Two different types of sparse antenna arrays are considered. One is linear sparse array for DOA estimation in one dimension and other is L shaped sparse array for DOA estimation in two dimensions. To make the algorithm robust against impulsive and Gaussian noise, a preprocessing stage is introduced. First, in the preprocessing stage median difference correntropy is used that combines median difference and the generalized correntropy. This suppresses the amplitude of impulsive noise. Second, the strength of weighted moving average filter is exploited before applying the CS technique to make the algorithm more robust. In the CS techniques, the source energy is distributed among the adjacent grid due to grid mismatch. Therefore, a fitness function based on the difference of the source energy among the adjacent grid is introduced. This provides the best discretization value through iterative grid refinement for the grid. The effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method is verified through exhaustive simulations for different number of sources and noise scenarios using one dimensional and two-dimensional sparse array structures.