Estimation of Angles of Arrival Through Superresolution -- A Soft Recovery Approach for General Antenna Geometries

Abstract

The estimation of direction of arrivals with help of $TV$-minimization is studied. Contrary to prior work in this direction, which has only considered certain antenna placement designs, we consider general antenna geometries. Applying the soft-recovery framework, we are able to derive a theoretic guarantee for a certain direction of arrival to be approximately recovered. We discuss the impact of the recovery guarantee for a few concrete antenna designs. Additionally, numerical simulations supporting the findings of the theoretical part are performed.