Direction Tracking of Multiple Moving Targets Using Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization

Based on weighted signal covariance (WSC) matrix and maximum likelihood (ML) estimation, a directionof-arrival (DOA) estimation method of multiple moving targets is designed and named as WSC-ML in the presence of impulse noise. In order to overcome the shortcoming of the multidimensional search cost of maximum likelihood estimation, a novel continuous quantum particle swarm optimization (QPSO) is proposed for this continuous optimization problem. And a tracking method of multiple moving targets in impulsive noise environment is proposed and named as QPSO-WSC-ML. Later, we make use of rank-one updating to update the weighted signal covariance matrix of WSC-ML. Simulation results illustrate the proposed QPSO-WSC-ML method is efficient and robust for the direction tracking of multiple moving targets in the presence of impulse noise.