ONLINE SUBSPACE ALGORITHMS FOR TRACKING MOVING SOURCES

In this paper, we propose a class of subspace-based methods for estimating the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of plane waves impinging on an array of sensors. The proposed methods estimate the DOA using only linear operations on the data, and can hence be implemented in a very efficient manner. Furthermore, these methods can accommodate more general noise models than the spatially white noise model commonly used in the literature. Large sample expressions are derived for the variance of the estimates obtained by using the proposed techniques. A comparative statistical study is performed in which comparisons against MUSIC are considered. It is found that usually MUSIC offers slightly more accurate DOA estimates at the cost of an increased computational burden and a more restrictive noise model. The paper includes simulation results lending support to the theoretical results obtained.