A DOA Tracking Method of UCA Based on QPIO in the presence of Impulse Noise

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation and tracking play an important role in array signal processing applications. In order to achieve 360-degree DOA estimation and improve the accuracy and robustness of DOA tracking in the presence of impulse noise, a DOA tracking method of uniform circular array (UCA) based on quantum pigeon-inspired optimization (QPIO) algorithm is proposed. Experimental results illustrate that the tracking performance of novel method is more robust. The new DOA tracking method broadens the application scope of the DOA estimation and tracking.