Abstract: In order to obtain the better direction of arrival (DOA) estimation and reduce the amount of computation for the wideband acoustic source under the condition of low signal-to-noise ratio, the ortho- gonal propagator algorithm is now applied to the spherical harmonic domain. Based on the establishment of a spherical array acoustic field model, two spherical harmonic propagator orientation algorithms are proposed, including the algorithm in which the spherical Fourier transform component is used to obtain the propagator and the algorithm in which the cross spectrum matrix with the spherical Fourier transform component is used to obtain the propagator. The frequency adaptation range of spherical arrays with different radii is analyzed, and the problem of multi-bandwidth acoustic source frequency adaptability is solved. The DOA estimation performances of the two algorithms and the spherical harmonic domain multiple signal classification algorithm under different SNRs are compared and analyzed. Acoustic source orientation experiments were performed, and the DOA estimation time of the three algorithms was test. Experiments show that both algorithms have the characteristics of small computation, less time and accurate orientation. Key

Key words: directionofarrival, multiplewidebandacousticsource, orthonormalpropagatoralgorithm, sphericalharmonicsfunction, sphericalarray