Localization of mixed far-field and near-field sources under unknown mutual coupling

In this paper, a novel localization algorithm for mixed far-field and near-field sources is proposed in the presence of unknown mutual coupling. Based on the principle of rank reduction, direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimates of far-field sources are firstly decoupled under unknown mutual coupling. Then these estimates are employed to generate the mutual coupling coefficients. Finally, by the mutual coupling compensation and the far-field components elimination, near-field sources parameters (DOA and range) are obtained. The proposed algorithm is efficient in that it only requires second order statistics and one dimensional spectral search. Simulation results demonstrate that our algorithm is effective for the classification and localization of mixed sources under unknown mutual coupling.

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