【Title】Diagonal loading least squares time delay estimation

【Author】LI Xuan YAN Shefeng MA Xiaochuan (Institute of Acoustics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 1000190)

【Abstract】Least squares (LS) time delay estimation is a classical and effective method. However, the performance is degraded severely in the scenario of low ratio of signal-noise(SNR), due to the instability of matrix inversing. In order to solve the problem, diagonal loading least squares(DL-LS) is proposed, by adding a positive definite matrix to the inverse matrix. Furthermore, the shortcoming of fixed diagonal loading is analyzed from the point of regularization that when the tolerance of low SNR is increased, veracity is decreased. This problem is resolved by reloading. The primary estimation’s reciprocal is introduced as diagonal loading and it leads to small diagonal loading at the time of arrival and larger loading at other time. Simulation and pool experiment prove the algorithm has better performance.