Biologically inspired coupled antenna array for direction of arrival estimation

Murat Akcakaya, Carlos H. Muravchik, Arye Nehorai

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Abstract

We propose to design a small-size antenna array having high direction of arrival (DOA) estimation performance, inspired by the Ormia ochracea's coupled ears. The female Ormia is able to locate male crickets' call accurately, for reproduction purposes, despite the small distance between its ears compared with the incoming wavelength. This phenomenon has been explained by the mechanical coupling between the Ormia's ears, modeled by a pair of differential equations. In this paper, we first solve the differential equations governing the Ormia ochracea's ear response, and convert the response to the pre-specified radio frequencies. Using the converted response, we then implement the biologically inspired coupling as a multi-input multi-output filter on a uniform linear antenna array output. We derive the maximum likelihood estimates of source DOAs, and compute the corresponding Cramér-Rao bound on the DOA estimation error as a performance measure. We use Monte Carlo numerical examples to demonstrate the advantages of the coupling effect.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationConference Record of the 44th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Asilomar 2010
Pages1961-1965
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event44th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Asilomar 2010 - Pacific Grove, CA, United States
Duration: Nov 7 2010Nov 10 2010

Publication series

NameConference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
ISSN (Print)1058-6393

Conference

Conference44th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Asilomar 2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPacific Grove, CA
Period11/7/1011/10/10

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