The invention provides a co-primer array non-grid DOA
estimation method under a non-negative sparse Bayes learning framework, and belongs to the field of research on a high-resolution direction finding method in
signal processing. The method includes the steps that firstly, a co-primer array received
data covariance matrix is vectorized, a virtual received
signal model is established, then a non-negative sparse Bayes model is established based on the characteristic that virtual incident
signal elements in the model are not negative, hyper-parameters and a grid
point set are iteratively updatedthrough an expectation-maximization
algorithm, finally, a signal power spectrum is established according to the finally-updated grid
point set and the finally-updated hyper-parameters, and then an estimated DOA is determined through spectrum peak searching. By means of the method, the operation process is converted to a real number field from a complex number field, and therefore the computationcomplexity can be reduced to a certain degree. In addition, by the application of a co-primer array, undetermined DOA
estimation can be achieved, the limitation of the number of array elements in themaximum estimable information source number is broken through, thus, the hardware cost can be reduced to a certain degree, and certain
engineering application value is achieved.