The invention belongs to the technical field of crossing of information and ocean science and technology, and discloses a UUV broadside
parallel array covariance weighted fusion DOA
estimation method. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, calculating auto-
covariance and cross-
covariance matrixes of two sub-arrays, carrying out weighted fusion on covariance matrixes of different sources through differential common-array expansion of a virtual aperture, then reconstructing a complete
covariance matrix by respectively adopting a convex optimization method of trace regularization and nuclear norm regularization according to the characteristics of the fused matrix, and finally, carrying out weighted fusion on the covariance matrixes of different sources. The
pitch angle and the
azimuth angle of the target are jointly estimated by performing
subspace decomposition on the constructed extension matrix, and the effectiveness of the method is verified by a
simulation result. According to the method, the precision of parameter
estimation is improved through data fusion, the degree of freedom is remarkably improved under a small number of physical array elements, high-precision
azimuth estimation of the UUV on multiple targets in the
underwater environment is achieved, the target detection capacity of the UUV is enhanced, and the method has high
engineering application value.