Genetic algorithm-based wide-band deterministic maximum likelihood direction finding algorithm

1 .INTRODUCTIONThe problemof esti mating direction of arriving waveusing array signal processing has wide applications inradar ,sonar ,seismology,astronomy and mobile andsatellite communication system, and has receivedmuch attentionin recent years .But the current liter-ature about direction finding algorithmpays more at-tention to narrow-band signal ,that is to say band-width of signal is far smaller than center frequency ofsignal and so envelop of signal keeps invariant in thesensors of …

Genetic algorithm-based wide-band deterministic maximum likelihood direction finding algorithm

The wide band direction finding is one of hit and difficult task in array signal processing. This paper generalizes narrow band deterministic maximum likelihood direction finding algorithm to the wideband case, and so constructions an object function, then utilizes genetic algorithm for nonlinear global optimization. Direction of arrival is estimated without preprocessing of array data and so the algorithm eliminates the effect of pre estimate on the final estimation. The algorithm is applied on uniform linear array and extensive simulation results prove the efficacy of the algorithm. In the process of simulation, we obtain the relation between estimation error and parameters of genetic algorithm.