A new heterogeneous collaborative detection method based on Time Difference of Arrival and Direction of arrival by the fuzzy evidence theory

A new collaborative detection method of TDOA(Time Difference of Arrival) and DOA(Direction of arrival) has been proposed for weak signals. The fuzzy evidence theory is used to fuse the peaks of TDOA correlation and the spatial spectrum of MUSIC(Multiple Signal Classification).In the paper, the TODA/DOA collaborative detector is designed, the basic probability assignment fuction(mass fuction or BPA fuction) and the membership fuction are used to express the uncertainty of the TDOA and DOA information. Then the information is fused by the D-S combination formula and the rule of game probability distribution is used to get the detection result. At last, the simulation results show that the performance of the detector is better than the traditional TDOA correlation detector.