Fractional Low-Order Moments Based DOA Estimation With Co-Prime Array in Presence of Impulsive Noise

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation with co-prime array is a hot issue in array signal processing. By using co-prime array structure, the degrees of freedom has been greatly improved, which can estimate much more sources than that of the conventional array structure. In the scenario of impulsive noise, the high-order (2-order or 4-order) moments of received signal do not exist, fractional low-order moments (FLOM) can be applied. In this paper, the concept of the co-prime array is extended to be applied on FLOM of received signal in presence of impulsive noise. And then MUSIC algorithm is used for DOA estimation. The proposed method is tested on the numerical data. The simulation results prove the effectiveness of the proposed method in impulsive noise scheme.