Title :
Direction of arrival tracking below the ambiguity threshold
Author :
Tweg, Ruby ; Wax, Mati
Author_Institution :
RAFAEL, Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We present an algorithm for direction of arrival tracking that allows operation below the ambiguity threshold of the direction finding system. Using multiple target tracking techniques, the algorithm turns the most likely directions of arrival of each measurement into multiple potential tracks and then selects the true track as that with the maximum cumulative likelihood. The improvement offered by the algorithm, namely the extension of the ambiguity-free domain, is demonstrated by simulated experiments
Keywords :
array signal processing; direction-of-arrival estimation; maximum likelihood estimation; target tracking; tracking; ambiguity free domain; ambiguity threshold; deterministic maximum likelihood estimator; direction finding system; direction of arrival tracking; maximum cumulative likelihood; measurement; multiple target tracking; simulated experiments; Additive noise; Direction of arrival estimation; Gaussian noise; Noise measurement; Position measurement; Sensor arrays; Signal to noise ratio; State estimation; Time measurement; Velocity measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1997. ICASSP-97., 1997 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7919-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1997.604694