The present invention discloses an inhomogeneous
sensor array broadband signal direction-of-arrival (DOA)
estimation method. The method comprises the following steps of: S1, performing sliding windowfast
Fourier transform of a
sample sequence in an inhomogeneous
sensor array, and constructing an actual value weighting sample
covariance vector yl; S2, constructing a corresponding over-complete array flow-pattern matrix [Phi]l; S3, employing the actual value weighting sample
covariance vector yl and the over-complete array flow-pattern matrix [Phi]l to set an initial value [gamma]
init of a space joint sparse representation vector [gamma] and an initial value [
lambda]
init of a regularization parameter [
lambda]; S4, employing the actual value weighting sample
covariance vector yl and the over-complete array flow-pattern matrix [Phi]l to update the space joint sparse representation vector [gamma] and the regularization parameter [
lambda]; S5, when the [gamma] obtained through the ith iteration and the [gamma]<i+1> obtained through the (i+1)the iteration meet ||[gamma]-[gamma]<i+1>||2 / ||[gamma]||2<[alpha] or achieve the maximum iteration times Pmax, stopping the iteration, or else, returning the step S4; and S6, searching all the peak values of the space joint sparse representation vector [gamma], and outputting DO
estimation values of the
broadband signals.