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Cramer-Rao Bound on DOA Estimation of Finite Bandwidth Signals Using a Moving Sensor

Aakash Arora, R. Bhavani Shankar Mysore, Björn E. Ottersten

Abstract

In this paper, we provide a framework for the direction of arrival (DOA) estimation using a single moving sensor and evaluate performance bounds on estimation. We introduce a signal model which captures spatio-temporal incoherency in the received signal due to sensor motion in space and finite bandwidth of the signal, hitherto not considered. We show that in such a scenario, the source signal covariance matrix becomes a function of the source DOA, which is usually not the case. Due to this unknown dependency, traditional subspace techniques cannot be applied and conditions on source covariance needs to imposed to ensure identifiability. This motivates us to investigate the performance bounds through the Cramer-Rao Lower Bounds (CRLBs) to set benchmark performance for future estimators. This paper exploits the signal model to derive an appropriate CRLB, which is shown to be better than those in relevant literature.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{icassp2020_cramerraoboundon,
  title = {Cramer-Rao Bound on DOA Estimation of Finite Bandwidth Signals Using a Moving Sensor},
  author = {Aakash Arora and R. Bhavani Shankar Mysore and Björn E. Ottersten},
  booktitle = {ICASSP 2020},
  year = {2020}
}