A robust DOA estimator based on the correntropy in alpha-stable noise environments

• Published in: Digital signal processing Vol. 60; pp. 242 - 251
• Main Authors: Wang, Peng, Qiu, Tian-shuang, Ren, Fu-quan, Song, Ai-min
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.01.2017
• Subjects: Correntropy; Direction of arrival; MUSIC algorithm; Symmetric alpha stable processes; Correntropy; Direction of arrival; MUSIC algorithm; Symmetric alpha stable processes
• ISSN: 1051-2004; 1095-4333
• DOI: 10.1016/j.dsp.2016.10.002

By introducing correntropy as the robust statistics, a novel direction of arrival estimator for α-stable noise is proposed. In this method, the signal subspace is estimated by solving the correntropy based optimization problem under the maximum correntropy criterion. An optimal step size based iterative algorithm is developed and the convergence of it is proved. Comprehensive simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method is superior to several existing algorithms in terms of the probability of resolution and the estimation accuracy, especially in the highly impulsive noise environments. •A novel robust DOA estimator based on the correntropy is proposed.•An iterative algorithm is developed and the convergence of it is proved.•The proposed method works well in both Gaussian and impulsive noise.•The proposed method works well in highly impulsive noise.