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Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica ›› 2026, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (3): 632194.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2025.32194

• Target State Collaboration and Intelligent Perception • Previous Articles    

Closed-form root-finding-based two-dimensional direction-of-arrival estimation using a parallel fourth-order sparse linear array

Yaxing YUE1(), Xiongpeng HE2, Hang ZHOU1, Dawei GAO1, Yufeng CHEN1, Guisheng LIAO1,2   

  1. 1.Hangzhou Institute of Technology,Xidian University,Hangzhou 311231,China
    2.School of Electronic Engineering,Xidian University,Xi’an 710071,China
  • Received:2025-05-07 Revised:2025-05-27 Accepted:2025-06-26 Online:2025-07-21 Published:2025-07-18
  • Contact: Yaxing YUE E-mail:yueyaxing@xidian.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(62431021);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(ZYTS25039)

Abstract:

To address the challenges of limited array degrees-of-freedom and noise sensitivity in traditional two-dimensional Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation, this paper proposes a root-finding closed-form estimation algorithm based on a Parallel Fourth-Order Sparse Linear Array (PFOSLA). First, the signal model for the considered PFOSLA is constructed, and the corresponding fourth-order standard cumulant matrix is analytically derived. Next, a novel matrix transformation method is proposed to convert the original fourth-order standard cumulant matrix into a virtual-element-based fourth-order cumulant matrix, thereby constructing a virtual high-degree-of-freedom array structure. Subsequently, leveraging the noise subspace of this transformed matrix, a polynomial root-finding-based DOA estimation algorithm is developed to achieve efficient two-dimensional angular estimation. Additionally, the computational complexity and the maximum number of resolvable sources are analyzed. Compared with existing methods, the proposed approach significantly increases the number of virtual elements, effectively enhances the number of resolvable sources, and suppresses colored Gaussian noise. Simulation results validate the superiority of the proposed method in terms of signal identifiability, estimation accuracy for two-dimensional DOA, and source resolution probability.

Key words: direction-of-arrival, fourth-order cumulant, polynomial roots finding, parallel liner array, closed-form estimation

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