DOA-Based Localization Method with Multiple Screening K-Means Clustering for Multiple Sources

Abstract EN

The existing angle-based localization methods are mainly suitable for the single source.

Actually, there often exists situation which contains multiple target sources.

To solve the problem of localization of multitarget sources, this paper presents a K-means clustering method based on multiple screening, which can effectively realize the localization of multiple sources based on DOA (direction of arrival) parameters.

The method firstly establishes a cost function of position coordinates by using DOA parameters from the measuring position coordinates and then solves the cost function to obtain a complete set of real position coordinates and fuzzy position coordinates.

As the distribution of real target coordinates is concentrated and the fuzzy target positions are scattered, the K-means clustering method is adopted to classify the coordinate set.

In order to improve the positioning accuracy, a multiscreening process is introduced to screen the input samples before each clustering, and it can be finally concluded that clustering centers are the position coordinates of the target sources.

Meanwhile, the complexity analysis and performance verification of this method are proposed.

Simulation experiments show that this method can efficiently realize ambiguity-free, highly precise localization of multitarget sources.