scholarly journals Direction Finding for Bistatic MIMO Radar with Uniform Circular Array

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cao Yunhe ◽  
Zhang Zijing ◽  
Wang Shenghua ◽  
Dai Fengzhou

A method of direction of arrival (DOA) and direction of departure (DOD) angle estimation based on polynomial rooting for bistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar with uniform circular array (UCA) configuration is proposed in this paper. The steering vector of the UCA is firstly transformed into a steering vector with a Vandermonde structure by using the Jacobi-Anger expansion. Then the null-spectrum function of the MIMO radar can be written as an expression in which the transmit and receive steering vectors are decoupled. Finally, a two-step polynomial rooting is used to estimate DOA and DOD of targets instead of two-dimensional multiple signal classification (MUSIC) search method for bistatic UCA MIMO radar. The angle estimation performance of the proposed method is similar to that of the MUSIC spectral search method, but the computation burden of the proposed polynomial rooting algorithm is much lower than that of the conventional MUSIC method. The simulation results of the proposed algorithm are presented and the performances are investigated and analyzed.

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 2964
Author(s):  
Fangqing Wen ◽  
Junpeng Shi ◽  
Xinhai Wang ◽  
Lin Wang

Ideal transmitting and receiving (Tx/Rx) array response is always desirable in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar. In practice, nevertheless, Tx/Rx arrays may be susceptible to unknown gain-phase errors (GPE) and yield seriously decreased positioning accuracy. This paper focuses on the direction-of-departure (DOD) and direction-of-arrival (DOA) problem in bistatic MIMO radar with unknown gain-phase errors (GPE). A novel parallel factor (PARAFAC) estimator is proposed. The factor matrices containing DOD and DOA are firstly obtained via PARAFAC decomposition. One DOD-DOA pair estimation is then accomplished from the spectrum searching. Thereafter, the remainder DOD and DOA are achieved by the least squares technique with the previous estimated angle pair. The proposed estimator is analyzed in detail. It only requires one instrumental Tx/Rx sensor, and it outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms. Numerical simulations verify the theoretical advantages.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianfeng Li ◽  
Xiaofei Zhang ◽  
Weiyang Chen

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation problem for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar with unknown mutual coupling is studied, and an algorithm for the DOA estimation based on root multiple signal classification (MUSIC) is proposed. Firstly, according to the Toeplitz structure of the mutual coupling matrix, output data of some specified sensors are selected to eliminate the influence of the mutual coupling. Then the reduced-dimension transformation is applied to make the computation burden lower as well as obtain a Vandermonde structure of the direction matrix. Finally, Root-MUSIC can be adopted for the angle estimation. The angle estimation performance of the proposed algorithm is better than that of estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques (ESPRIT)-like algorithm and MUSIC-like algorithm. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm has lower complexity than them. The simulation results verify the effectiveness of the algorithm, and the theoretical estimation error of the algorithm is also derived.


2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 3029-3033 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Feng Li ◽  
Wei Yang Chen ◽  
Xiao Fei Zhang

In this paper, joint direction of departure (DOD) and direction of arrival (DOA) estimation for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar with unknown mutual coupling is studied. An improved propagator calculation method is proposed to overcome the performance degradation problem when signal to noise ratio (SNR) is low. Thereafter, according to the Toeplitz structure of the mutual coupling matrix, the rotational invariance can be extracted for the angle estimation regardless of the mutual coupling from the augmented propagator matrix. The angle estimation performance of the proposed algorithm is better than that of estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques (ESPRIT)-like algorithm and conventional PM-like method, and angles are automatically paired. The simulation results verify the effectiveness of the algorithm.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dang Xiaofang ◽  
Chen Baixiao ◽  
Yang Minglei ◽  
Zheng Guimei

The beamspace unitary ESPRIT (B-UESPRIT) algorithm for estimating the joint direction of arrival (DOA) and the direction of departure (DOD) in bistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar is proposed. The conjugate centrosymmetrized DFT matrix is utilized to retain the rotational invariance structure in the beamspace transformation for both the receiving array and the transmitting array. Then the real-valued unitary ESPRIT algorithm is used to estimate DODs and DOAs which have been paired automatically. The proposed algorithm does not require peak searching, presents low complexity, and provides a significant better performance compared to some existing methods, such as the element-space ESPRIT (E-ESPRIT) algorithm and the beamspace ESPRIT (B-ESPRIT) algorithm for bistatic MIMO radar. Simulation results are conducted to show these conclusions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Yucai Pang ◽  
Song Liu ◽  
Yun He

Larger array aperture is provided by sparse arrays than uniform ones, which can improve the angle estimation resolution and reduce the cost of system evidently. However, manifold ambiguity is introduced due to the array sparsity. In this paper, a Power Estimation Multiple-Signal Classification (PE-MUSIC) algorithm is proposed to solve the manifold ambiguity of arbitrary sparse arrays for uncorrelated sources in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar. First, the paired direction of departure (DOD) and direction of arrival (DOA) are obtained for all targets by MUSIC algorithm, including the true and spurious ones; then, the well-known Davidon–Fletcher–Powell (DFP) algorithm is applied to estimate all targets’ power values, among which the value of a spurious target trends to zero. Therefore, the ambiguity of sparse array in MIMO radar can be cleared. Simulation results verify the effectiveness and feasibility of the method.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Baobao Liu ◽  
Tao Xue ◽  
Cong Xu ◽  
Yongjun Liu

A low complexity unitary estimating signal parameter via rotational invariance techniques (ESPRIT) algorithm is presented for angle estimation in bistatic multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radar. The devised algorithm only requires calculating two submatrices covariance matrix, which reduces the computation cost in comparison with subspace methods. Moreover, the signal subspace can be efficiently acquired by exploiting the NystrÖm method, which only needs O M N K 2 flops. Thus, the presented algorithm has an essentially diminished computational effort, especially useful when K ≪ M N , while it can achieve efficient angle estimation accuracy as well as the existing algorithms. Several theoretical analysis and simulation results are provided to demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed scheme.


2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 3850-3854
Author(s):  
Jian Feng Li ◽  
Wei Yang Chen ◽  
Xiao Fei Zhang

Without using non-circular signals, conjugate estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance technique (ESPRIT) for joint estimation of direction of departure (DOD) and direction of arrival (DOA) in bistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar is proposed. The characteristics of the Vandermonde-like matrix are employed to expand the virtual array of MIMO radar. Then the rotational invariance in the signal subspace is exploited to get the automatically paired estimations of angles. The proposed algorithm works with the same data model as that of ESPRIT, and has better angle estimation performance and can detect more targets than ESPRIT. Simulation results verify the usefulness of our approach.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Yongqiang Yang ◽  
Ningjun Ruan ◽  
Guanjun Huang ◽  
Junpeng Shi ◽  
Fangqing Wen

In this paper, a novel two-dimensional (2D) direction-of-departure (DOD) and 2D direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimate algorithm is proposed for bistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system equipped with coprime electromagnetic vector sensors (EMVS) arrays. Firstly, we construct the propagator to obtain the signal subspace. Then, the ambiguous angles are estimated by using rotation invariant technique. Based on the characteristic of coprime array, the unambiguous angles estimation is achieved. Finally, all azimuth angles estimation is followed via vector cross product. Compared to the existing uniform linear array, coprime MIMO radar is occupying large array aperture, and the proposed algorithm does not need to obtain signal subspace by eigendecomposition. In contrast to the state-of-the-art algorithms, the proposed algorithm shows better estimation performance and simpler computation performance. The proposed algorithm’s effectiveness is proved by simulation results.


2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (05) ◽  
pp. 1650043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu Li ◽  
Weihua Lv ◽  
Xiaofei Zhang ◽  
Dazhuan Xu

In this paper, we address the problem of angle estimation in a bistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar which exploits nonuniform linear array at both the transmitter and the receiver with small number of antennas. It is demonstrated that the conventional trilinear decomposition-based angle estimation algorithm can identify only a comparatively small number of targets under this condition. In order to increase the number of identifiable targets, we derive an expanded trilinear decomposition-based angle estimation algorithm for MIMO radar, which can expand the size of the trilinear model. The proposed algorithm not only has the advantages of not requiring spectral peak searching, nor additional pair matching and being suitable for nonuniform arrays, but also identifies more targets than the conventional trilinear decomposition-based angle estimation algorithm under the same conditions. Moreover, the angle estimation performance of the proposed algorithm is better than that of the conventional trilinear decomposition-based angle estimation algorithm and the estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques (ESPRIT) algorithm. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness and improvement of the proposed algorithm.


2013 ◽  
Vol 347-350 ◽  
pp. 1028-1032
Author(s):  
Jian Feng Li ◽  
Xiao Fei Zhang ◽  
Tong Hu

The issue of angle estimation for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar is studied and an algorithm for the estimation based on compressive sensing with multiple snapshots is proposed. The dimension of received signal is reduced to make the computation burden lower, and then the noise sensitivity is reduced by the eigenvalue decomposition (EVD) of the covariance matrix of the reduced-dimensional signal. Finally the signal subspace obtained from the eigenvectors is realigned to apply the orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) for angle estimation. The angle estimation performance of the proposed algorithm is better than that of estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques (ESPRIT) algorithm, and reduced-dimension Capon. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm works well for coherent targets, and requires no knowledge of the noise. The complexity analysis and simulation results verify the effectiveness of the algorithm.


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