Sparse Sensor Arrays for Active Sensing: Models, Configurations and Applications
Robin Rajam\"aki, Visa Koivunen

TL;DR
This paper explores the design and application of sparse sensor arrays in active sensing, highlighting their advantages in resolution and scatterer detection, along with beamforming techniques and practical considerations.
Contribution
It introduces scalable sparse array configurations for active sensing, extending passive array geometries, and discusses methods to mitigate side lobes and synthesize desired beampatterns.
Findings
Sparse arrays improve resolution with fewer sensors.
Synthetic beamforming reduces side lobes.
Extensions of passive array geometries to active sensing.
Abstract
This chapter focuses on active sensing using sparse arrays. In active sensing applications, such as radar, sonar, wireless communications, and medical ultrasound, a collection of sensors probes the environment by emitting self-generated energy. A key benefit of such active multi-sensor arrays is their ability to focus and steer energy in desired directions by beamforming on transmit. Sparse sensor arrays offer several advantages over conventional uniform arrays, including improved resolution using fewer physical sensors and the capability to identify more scatterers than sensors. This is facilitated by the effective transmit-receive virtual array known as the sum co-array, which can have many more virtual sensors than the number of physical transmit or receive sensors. Herein, we focus on the design of low-redundancy sparse array configurations and on employing transmit-receive (Tx-Rx)…
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Taxonomy
TopicsDirection-of-Arrival Estimation Techniques · Radar Systems and Signal Processing · Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques
