A novel real-valued DOA algorithm based on eigenvalue

Abstract

To solve the high complexity of the subspace-based direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation algorithm, a super-resolution DOA algorithm is built in this paper. However, in this method, matrix decomposition is required for each search angle. Therefore, in this paper, real-valued processing is used to reduce the scanning range by half, which is less effective in algorithm complexity. The superresolution algorithm mainly uses the conservation of energy. By exploring the relationship between the covariance matrix and its complex conjugate, we constructed the real-valued matrix and introduced a real-valued searching source to make the operation of the matrix real-valued. Finally, the simulation experiments show that the proposed algorithm not only reduces the spectral search range by half but also has a higher angular resolution than the traditional algorithm.