A robust high resolution speaker source direction of arrival (DOA) estimation method is proposed based on one acoustic vector sensor (AVS) and spatial sparse representation. Under the reverberation and additive noise conditions, the array covariance vector mode l of the received signals by AVS is first derived. Then the sparse representation model of the covariance vector is developed. Finally the robust DOA estimation is obtained by recovering the sparse vector. A large number of simulation experiments are carried out under different reverberation and additive noise conditions, and also DOA estimation experiments in the actual environment. The results show that the proposed speaker DOA estimation is able to achieve root mean square error(RMSE) of below 1° when SNR is from 5 dB to 30 dB and 2—10° error in the real scenario.