Title :
A Biologically-Inspired Compound Eye Particle Detector Array
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Syst. Eng., Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO
Abstract :
We propose a particle detector array that generalizes the biological compound eye of insects. We analyze the array´s statistical performance including Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) and mean-square angular error (MSAE). We optimally design the array configuration by minimizing the worst case performance bound. We propose two source direction estimators, and show that the performance bound is attainable by both asymptotically
Keywords :
eye; mean square error methods; particle detectors; statistical analysis; Cramer-Rao bound; biologically-inspired compound eye particle detector array; mean-square angular error; source direction estimators; statistical performance; Collaborative work; Radiation detectors; Sensor arrays; Systems engineering and theory;
Conference_Titel :
Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing, 2006. Fourth IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Waltham, MA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0308-1
DOI :
10.1109/SAM.2006.1706220