Direction Finding Using Rotated Long Baseline Interferometer

Abstract

To reduce the hardware cost of traditional multichannel array or interferometer, a direction finding method using rotated long baseline interferometer (RLBI) has been developed. To overcome the initialization problem, a multiple hypothesis Gauss-Newton (MHGN) algorithm is proposed. It first chooses multiple initial pairs from a pair of PD measurements and then applies each value to the GN algorithm and meanwhile obtains a cost for this initial value. Finally, the ultimate estimate is then picked with the minimum cost. Simulation shows that the proposed method can approach to the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB).