Multi-Maneuvering Sources DOA Tracking With Improved Interactive Multi-Model Multi-Bernoulli Filter for Acoustic Vector Sensor (AVS) Array

Abstract

To solve the problem of the direction of arrival (DOA) maneuvering in acoustic vector sensor (AVS) array, we propose an interactive multi-model Multi-target Multi-Bernoulli (IMM-MeMBer) two-dimensional (2-D) DOA tracking algorithm. The idea of the IMM algorithm is employed to interactively estimate the predicted sampled particles at the expense of calculating the likelihood function of the predicted particles by pseudo-spectrum of multi-signal classification (MUSIC). The proposed method fully considers various possibilities of target motion, which makes the target state estimation more effective. Moreover, the de-noising and exponential weighting of MUSIC pseudo-spectrum improve the likelihood function of particles, thus enhancing the weight of particles in high likelihood region and making these particles more effective in the subsequent resampling process. Simulation results show that the IMM-MeMBer algorithm has better performance than projection approximation subspace tracking of deflation MUSIC (PASTD-MUSIC), MeMBer, particle filter (PF), and random finite set PF (RFS-PF) in the DOA tracking of maneuvering sources.