An architecture for DOA estimation for broad-band sources

Author

Tabar, R. ; Jamali, M.M. ; Kwatra, S.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Toledo Univ., OH, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

18-21 Oct 1993

Abstract

High-resolution direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is important in many sensory systems like radars, sonars and seismic exploration. With the advances in the area of VLSI it is now possible to design a special purpose hardware for DOA estimation which will be suitable for real-time sonar applications. One of the methods for DOA estimation for broad-band sources proposed by Buckley and Griffiths [1988] has been selected for hardware implementation. This BASS-ALE algorithm has been simplified, parallelized and is mapped on an architecture suitable for real time processing

Keywords

VLSI; acoustic signal processing; application specific integrated circuits; array signal processing; digital signal processing chips; marine systems; parallel architectures; parameter estimation; pipeline processing; position measurement; real-time systems; signal detection; sonar; BASS-ALE algorithm; DOA estimation; VLSI; architecture; broad-band sources; direction-of-arrival estimation; hardware implementation; parallel architecture; real time processing; real-time sonar applications; special purpose hardware; Algorithm design and analysis; Application specific integrated circuits; Computer architecture; Covariance matrix; Delay; Direction of arrival estimation; Hardware; Position measurement; Sensor arrays; Sonar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '93. Engineering in Harmony with Ocean. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1385-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1993.326101

Filename

326101