DOA Estimation With Nested Arrays in Impulsive Noise Scenario: An Adaptive Order Moment Strategy

Most of the existing direction of arrival (DOA) estimation methods in impulsive noise scenario are based on the fractional low-order moment statistics (FLOSs), such as the robust covariation-based (ROC), fractional low-order moment (FLOM), and phased fractional low-order moment (PFLOM). However, an unknown order moment parameter p needs to be selected in these approaches, which inevitably increases the computational load if the optimal value of the parameter p is determined by a large number of Monte Carlo experiments. To address this issue, we propose the adaptive order moment function (AOMF) and improved AOMF (IAOMF), which are applicable to the existing FLOSs-based methods and can also be extended to the case of sparse arrays. Moreover, we analyze the performance of AOMF and IAOMF, and simulation experiments verify the effectiveness of proposed methods.