The impact of mutual coupling on MIMO radar emissions

Author(s):  
Brian Cordill ◽  
Justin Metcalf ◽  
Sarah A. Seguin ◽  
Deb Chatterjee ◽  
Shannon D. Blunt
Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 2788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuehao Guo ◽  
Xianpeng Wang ◽  
Wensi Wang ◽  
Mengxing Huang ◽  
Chong Shen ◽  
...  

In the paper, the estimation of joint direction-of-departure (DOD) and direction-of-arrival (DOA) for strictly noncircular targets in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar with unknown mutual coupling is considered, and a tensor-based angle estimation method is proposed. In the proposed method, making use of the banded symmetric Toeplitz structure of the mutual coupling matrix, the influence of the unknown mutual coupling is removed in the tensor domain. Then, a special enhancement tensor is formulated to capture both the noncircularity and inherent multidimensional structure of strictly noncircular signals. After that, the higher-order singular value decomposition (HOSVD) technology is applied for estimating the tensor-based signal subspace. Finally, the direction-of-departure (DOD) and direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is obtained by utilizing the rotational invariance technique. Due to the use of both noncircularity and multidimensional structure of the detected signal, the algorithm in this paper has better angle estimation performance than other subspace-based algorithms. The experiment results verify that the method proposed has better angle estimation performance.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Chaochen Tang ◽  
Hongbing Qiu ◽  
Xin Liu ◽  
Qinghua Tang

Multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) radar systems have advantages over traditional phased-array radar in resolution, parameter identifiability, and target detection. However, the estimation performance of the direction of arrivals (DOAs) and the direction of departures (DODs) will be significantly degraded for a colocated MIMO radar system with unknown mutual coupling matrix (MCM). Although auxiliary sensors (AS) can be set to solve this problem, the computational cost of two-dimensional multiple signal classification (2D-MUSIC) is still large. In this paper, a new angle estimation method is proposed to reduce the computational complexity. First, a local-search range is defined for each initial angle estimation obtained by the MUSIC with AS method. Second, the new estimation of DOAs and DODs of the targets is estimated via the joint estimation theory of angle and mutual coupling coefficient in the local search area. Simulation results validate that the proposed method can obtain the same precision and have the advantage over the global searching in computational complexity.


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