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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2018

DOA Estimation for Underwater Target by Active Detection on Virtual Time Reversal Using a Uniform Linear Array.

Haixia Jing, Haiyan Wang, Zhengguo Liu, Xiaohong Shen

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Haixia JingSchool of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China. haixjing@gmail.com.
Haiyan WangSchool of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China. hywang@nwpu.edu.cn.
Zhengguo LiuChina Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, Beijing 10097, China. liuzg@csic.com.cn.
Xiaohong ShenSchool of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China. xhshen@nwpu.edu.cn.

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Abstract

Aiming at addressing the problem caused by multipath effects in direction of arrival (DOA) estimation for underwater targets, a method based on the active detection on virtual time reversal (ADVTR) Capon algorithm is proposed. Unlike the conventional passive target estimation method ignoring the multipath effects but only considering the direct wave, the proposed method is closer to the actual situation in that the multipath signal propagation model is fully taken into account; in addition, active detection (AD) and virtual time reversal (VTR) processes are added, which use active detection to estimate channels, and virtual time reversal to realize focusing in a computer after the source-receive array (SRA) receives the reflected signal of the target. The combination of the two methods can greatly improve the energy of SRA and the precision of target direction estimation. With the popular acoustic field simulation tool Bellhop, the model proposed in this paper is verified. Compared with the conventional Capon method without time reversal, the simulation results show that the ADVTR Capon estimation method is far better, in terms of resolution and suppressing the sidelobes. It is suitable for the target DOA estimation under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions. Further, we also show the ADVTR Capon estimation method works well in a real tank experiment.

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active detection on virtual time reversal (ADVTR)Capon algorithmdirection of arrival (DOA) estimationmultipath effectsspatial smoothingULA

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