New signal subspace direction-of-arrival estimator for wideband sources

Signal subspace methods in DOA estimation for wideband sources require preprocessing to find initial values which are close enough to the true values or to convert sensor outputs into desired forms. The preprocessing procedure should be carefully done lest it introduce some distortion. Failure to find proper initial values may prevent convergence of the estimator or cause biases in the estimator. The proposed method detects uncorrelated wideband sources using the signal subspace and the noise subspace of decomposed wideband signals. It does not require any initial values. The only preprocessing is narrowband decomposition of the sensor output which is very common in other wideband methods. Computer simulation showed that the proposed method has less bias than and comparable variance to CSSM with small focusing errors.