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  • Signal Processing
  • Acoustics
  • Array Signal Processing

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  • Conventional compressive beamforming struggles with grid mismatch, where true directions-of-arrival (DOAs) deviate from discretized grids.
  • This limitation hinders accurate source localization in complex acoustic environments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a compressive sensing (CS) based model capable of reconstructing block-sparse signals for off-grid 2D direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation.
  • To address the limitations of conventional methods by incorporating off-grid DOA compensation within a block-sparse framework.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a CS-based model designed for block-sparse signal reconstruction.
  • Treated DOAs and their off-grid compensation components as distinct blocks for improved 2D beamforming.
  • Applied the method to arbitrary planar array geometries without requiring specific configurations.

Main Results:

  • Numerical simulations demonstrated high estimation accuracy for the proposed off-grid 2D DOA reconstruction method.
  • The approach proved effective in handling scenarios where true DOAs do not align with the search grid.
  • Experimental validation using cavitation tunnel data confirmed the method's high resolution and practical utility.

Conclusions:

  • The developed CS-based block-sparse signal reconstruction model effectively overcomes the grid mismatch problem in 2D DOA estimation.
  • The method offers practical advantages due to its independence from specific array configurations and its demonstrated high accuracy in simulations and experiments.
  • This technique shows significant potential for applications involving sparse acoustic source localization, such as analyzing propeller cavitation noise.