A PARTIALLY-RELAXED ROBUST DOA ESTIMATOR UNDER NON-GAUSSIAN LOW-RANK INTERFERENCE AND NOISE

In practical applications, non-Gaussianity of the signal at the sensor array is detrimental to the performance of conventional Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimators developed under the Gaussian model. In this paper, we propose a novel robust DOA estimator from the data collected at the sensor array under the corruption of non-Gaussian interference and noise. Additionally, the Cramer-Rao bound for DOA parameters under the considered signal model is derived. Simulation results show that the proposed estimator exhibits near-optimal estimation performance under the assumed model while being robust to model mismatch and/or the presence of outliers.