A novel autofocusing approach for estimating directions-of-arrival of wideband signals

We propose a novel approach to the design of focusing matrices which play important role in the coherent methods for wideband direction-of-arrival estimation. We call this `autofocusing´ because unlike the conventional methods, our technique constructs the focusing matrices entirely by processing the received signal and does not require any preliminary DOA estimates. In this way, it overcomes the major drawback of the coherent methods which otherwise possess many desirable properties. Through computer simulations, the proposed method is found to exhibit satisfactory performance in comparison to the existing wideband DOA estimation algorithms.