A new method for joint DOD and DOA estimation in bistatic MIMO radar

A joint direction of departures (DODs) and direction of arrivals (DOAs) estimation for bistatic MIMO radar via both ESPRIT and SVD of cross-correlation matrix of the received data from two transmit subarrays is presented. The proposed method, with the influence of spatial colored noise eliminated, is effective for three- or more-transmitter configured system. The DOAs and DODs of targets can be solved in closed form and paired automatically. Moreover, the maximum number of targets that can be identified by using this method is also analyzed. Simulation results are presented to verify the effectiveness of the method.     

Low complexity 3D-OMP algorithms for DOD DOA and Doppler frequency estimation in bistatic MIMO radar

The biggest challenge of the traditional 3D orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) method for direction-of-departure (DOD), direction-of-arrival (DOA) and Doppler frequency estimation in bistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar is the heavy computational burden due to a large number of atoms in the overcomplete dictionary. In this paper, low complexity 3D-OMP algorithms are investigated. First, the traditional 3D-OMP algorithm is given. Then, two-dimensionality reduced OMP-based algorithms are proposed exploiting the property of Khatri-Rao product and proper sparse representation. Also, the multiple measurement vectors (MMV) model is introduced to our OMP algorithms to guarantee the estimation performance. The simulation results show that the DOD, DOA and Doppler frequency can be effectively estimated with a small number of pulses and low computation cost. With similar accuracy compared with the traditional 3D-OMP method, much lower computational burden can be achieved by using the proposed methods.     

双基地多入多出雷达收发方位角联合估计算法

基于多项式求根理论,提出了一种高精度双基地多入多出(Multiple InputMultiple Output,MIMO)雷达收发方位角联合估计算法.该方法通过多项式求根和极小特征矢量法获得二维收发方位角的估值.所提方法无需运算负担繁重的二维伪谱峰值搜索,估得的二维收发方位角由于特征值和特征矢量存在一一对应关系能够自动配对.算法通过链接匹配滤波后的阵列接收数据,产生了虚拟阵元效应,扩展了有效阵列孔径,使得可检测信源数目成倍增长,算法的空间角分辨率更高,角估计性能更优,有效测角范围更加宽广,稳健性更好.仿真实验证明了所提算法的有效性和实用性.     

双基地分布式阵列MIMO雷达的DOA和DOD估计方法

结合分布式阵列和双基地多输入多输出(Multiple-Input Multiple-Output, MIMO)雷达的特点, 提出了一种新的双基地分布式阵列MIMO雷达的接收角(Direction of Arrival, DOA)和发射角(Direction of Departure, DOD)估计方法.根据发射阵列和接收阵列的空域旋转不变特性, 利用旋转不变估计技术(Estimation of Signal Parameters via Rotational Invariance Techniques, ESPRIT)获取无模糊DOA粗估计和高精度周期性模糊的DOA、DOD精估计; 再利用无模糊DOA粗估计、目标的双基地距离信息以及双基地MIMO雷达的几何特点, 解除DOA、DOD精估计的周期性模糊, 得到高精度且无模糊的DOA和DOD估计.最后, 根据ESPRIT算法原理和估计误差的概率统计特性进行算法的性能分析, 给出算法基线模糊门限的近似计算方法.该算法有效地放宽了发射阵列孔径扩展程度的限制, 从而提高了阵列在大孔径下的角度估计精度, 且能够实现DOA和DOD估计的自动配对.仿真结果验证了所提算法和性能分析方法的有效性.     

Computationally efficient DOD and DOA estimation for bistatic MIMO radar with propagator method

In this article, we consider a computationally efficient direction of departure and direction of arrival estimation problem for a bistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar. The computational loads of the propagator method (PM) can be significantly smaller since the PM does not require any eigenvalue decomposition of the cross correlation matrix and singular value decomposition of the received data. An improved PM algorithm is proposed to obtain automatically paired transmit and receive angle estimations in the MIMO radar. The proposed algorithm has very close angle estimation performance to conventional PM, which has a much higher complexity than our algorithm. For high signal-to-noise ratio, the proposed algorithm has very close angle estimation to estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance technique algorithm. The variance of the estimation error and Cramér–Rao bound of angle estimation are derived. Simulation results verify the usefulness of our algorithm.     

Joint parameter estimation of DOD/DOA/polarization for bistatic MIMO radar

In the paper,polarization-sensitive array is exploited at the receiver of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar system,a novel method is proposed for joint estimation of direction of departure (DOD),direction of arrival (DOA) and polarization parameters for bistatic MIMO radars. A signal model of polarimetric MIMO radar is developed,and the multi-parameter estimation algorithm for target localization is described by exploiting polarization array processing and the invariance property in both transmitter array and receiver array. By making use of polarization diversity techniques,the proposed method has advantages over traditional localization algorithms for bistatic MIMO radar. Simulations show that the performance of DOD and DOA estimation is greatly enhanced when different states of polarization of echoes is fully utilized. Especially,when two targets are closely spaced and cannot be well separated in spatial domain,the estimation resolution of traditional algorithms will be greatly degraded. While the proposed algorithm can work well and achieve high-resolution identification and accurate localization of multiple targets.     

DOD and DOA estimation in bistatic MIMO radar for nested and coprime array with closed-form DOF

It is well known that sparse array can offer better angle resolution than that of uniform linear array (ULA) in the same number of physical sensors. But in bistatic minimum redundancy sparse array multi-input multi-output (MIMO) radar, it cannot offer closed-form degree of freedom (DOF) for the arbitrary number of sensors with direction of departure and direction of arrival estimation. Therefore, this article introduces a nested array and coprime array into sparse array to solve the problem. First, construct no holes difference-coarray by extracting specified covariance matrix elements. Then, transform the difference-coarray into ULA within bistatic MIMO radar through some mathematical operations. As a result, many angle estimation methods for traditional ULA can be applied to the sparse bistatic MIMO array radar. The proposed algorithm offers closed-form DOFs for sparse array and the array aperture is much larger than that of ULA with identical number of sensors. The usefulness of the proposed methods is verified through computer simulations.     

Unfolded coprime bistatic MIMO radar for joint DOD and DOA estimation: from viewpoint on aperture augment for sum coarray

Generally, the coprime linear array (CLA) consisting of two interleaved uniform linear subarrays can enlarge the array aperture to attain the better angle estimation performance compared with the uniform linear array (ULA). In this paper, we ulteriorly study the virtual sum coarray of the unfolded coprime (UC) bistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar whose transmitter and receiver array are both unfolded CLA from the viewpoint on the geometry and array aperture. The UC MIMO radar can be exploited to obtain the better joint direction of departure (DOD) and direction of arrival (DOA) estimation performance due to the larger array aperture. Furthermore, we propose an all sum coarray multiple signals classification (ASCA-MUSIC) algorithm for the UC MIMO radar. ASCA-MUSIC can fully exploit all the degrees of freedom (DOFs) in the sum coarray and can obtain the better estimation performance. We also prove that ASCA-MUSIC can avoid the phase ambiguity problem due to the coprime property. In addition, we devise a reduced complexity scheme for ASCA-MUSIC to reduce the high computational complexity and utilize Cramer–Rao Bound (CRB) as a benchmark for the lower bound on the root-mean-square error (RMSE) of unbiased angle estimation. Finally, the numerical simulations verify the effectiveness and superiority of the UC MIMO radar, ASCA-MUSIC and the reduced complexity scheme.     

Fast super-resolution estimation of DOA and DOD in bistatic MIMO Radar with off-grid targets

In this paper, we focus on the problem of joint DOA and DOD estimation in Bistatic MIMO Radar using sparse reconstruction method. In traditional ways, we usually convert the 2D parameter estimation problem into 1D parameter estimation problem by Kronecker product which will enlarge the scale of the parameter estimation problem and bring more computational burden. Furthermore, it requires that the targets must fall on the predefined grids. In this paper, a 2D-off-grid model is built which can solve the grid mismatch problem of 2D parameters estimation. Then in order to solve the joint 2D sparse reconstruction problem directly and efficiently, three kinds of fast joint sparse matrix reconstruction methods are proposed which are Joint-2D-OMP algorithm, Joint-2D-SL0 algorithm and Joint-2D-SOONE algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate that our methods not only can improve the 2D parameter estimation accuracy but also reduce the computational complexity compared with the traditional Kronecker Compressed Sensing method.     

DOD and DOA estimation using the spatial smoothing in MIMO radar with the EmV sensors

This paper deals with the directions of departure (DOD) and directions of arrival (DOA) estimation of coherent and noncoherent targets in bistatic MIMO radar with the electromagnetic vector (EmV) sensors. The high-resolution eigenspace-based methods such as, estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance technique (ESPRIT), multiple signal classification, etc., fails to estimate DOD and DOA of fully or partially correlated targets. In order to employ these methods, a new pre-processing method is developed based on the spatial smoothing in MIMO radar with the EmV sensors. Then, the directions are estimated using the ESPRIT algorithm. Monte-Carlo simulations are performed to investigate the estimation-accuracy and resolution-capability of the proposed approach, and to compare with no pre-processing and the existing method. The simulation result shows that, the proposed methodology improves the performance significantly.     

双基地MIMO雷达参数估计

文中探讨了双基地MIMO雷达进行参数估计的方法。针对时域噪声为高斯白噪声,存在空间高斯有色噪声的背景,引入时间延迟这个因素构造旋转因子,同时利用匹配滤波器和ESPRIT子空间算法实现目标角度以及多普勒频率的参数联合估计。仿真结果表明这种算法可以消除系统中空间高斯有色噪声的影响,得到较高的估计精度。     

Direction finding and mutual coupling estimation for bistatic MIMO radar

An algorithm for joint direction-of-departure (DOD) and direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in the presence of unknown mutual coupling for bistatic MIMO radar is presented. Based on the special structure of the coupling matrix of uniform linear array (ULA), the angles can be estimated directly by two one-dimensional searches without the knowledge of the mutual coupling matrices. Then the mutual coupling coefficients of the transmitter and the receiver can be solved in closed-form by utilizing the obtained DODs and DOAs, respectively. Numerical examples are given for demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

宽带双基地MIMO雷达的参数联合估计的新方法

提出了一种基于分数阶功率谱的宽带双基地MIMO雷达中参数联合估计的新方法。在许多情况下,根据窄带信号模型对宽带回波信号中的参数进行估计是不合适的,因此提出一个新的宽带回波信号模型对运动目标参数进行估计。根据分数阶功率谱(FPSD)的峰值点对多普勒频移因子和时延参数进行联合估计。并依据分数阶功率谱的峰值点构造2个子阵,提出的FPSD-MUSIC算法和FPSD-ESPRIT算法实现了对收发角的联合估计。接下来推导了该信号模型中参数估计的克拉美罗界。仿真实验验证了算法的有效性。     

宽带信号下的双基地MIMO雷达收发角估计

针对双基地多输入多输出(MIMO)雷达收发角联合估计问题,利用信号的循环平稳特性,构造宽带循环平稳信号下接收数据的循环自相关矩阵。对矩阵进行特征值分解,利用MUSIC, ESPRIT等空间谱估计算法估计出信号的收发角。宽带信号能够携带更多的信息量,利于不断增加的实际需求,而信号的循环平稳特性能够很好地抗干扰以及消除高斯噪声带来的影响。实验仿真结果表明,算法在宽带循环平稳信号下具有良好的角度估计性能。     

MIMO雷达多目标DOA估计

DOA估计是雷达参数估计方面理论研究的一个重要内容,其主要目的是确定各个信号到达阵列参考阵元的方向角。MIMO雷达可以有效提高DOA估计分辨力和精度得到了广泛的关注,但是MIMO雷达DOA估计算法却比较复杂。因此对MIMO雷达DOA估计的几种主要算法进行了深入系统的研究,通过计算机仿真分析比较了各种不同算法的特点,得到了各种算法的优缺点和局限性,从而为正确分析和处理MIMO雷达回波信号提供依据。     

低快拍下多输入多输出雷达中的角度估计算法

研究了双基地多输入多输出(MIMO)雷达中的角度估计问题,提出了一种低快拍下的MIMO雷达的离开角(DOD)和波达角(DOA)联合估计算法。该算法利用矩阵束方法从接收数据中构造出扩展矩阵来进行奇异值分解(SVD),进而进行二维角度估计联合估计。在低快拍数情况下所提算法的角度估计性能优于传统的借助旋转不变技术的信号参数估计(ESPRIT)方法,同时该算法能自动配对、无需谱峰搜索,而且复杂度也低于传统的ESPRIT算法。分析了所提算法复杂度,推导了克拉美-罗界(CRB)。仿真结果验证了该算法的有效性。     

多基线数据融合的双基地MIMO雷达角度估计

提出了一种双基地MIMO雷达角度估计方法。在发射端利用ESPRIT算法获取长短基线的旋转不变因子,通过联合对角化提高离开角度(DOD)的估计精度。根据已估计的DOD,采用迭代算法得到接收导向矢量。针对等距线阵和非等距线阵,分别提出了基于范德蒙矩阵特性和解模糊的多基线联合到达角度(DOA)估计方法,避免了两维搜索且角度自动配对。计算机仿真验证了该方法的有效性和优越性。     

Novel angle estimation for bistatic MIMO radar using an improved MUSIC

In this article, we study the problem of angle estimation for bistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar and propose an improved multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm for joint direction of departure (DOD) and direction of arrival (DOA) estimation. The proposed algorithm obtains initial estimations of angles obtained from the signal subspace and uses the local one-dimensional peak searches to achieve the joint estimations of DOD and DOA. The angle estimation performance of the proposed algorithm is better than that of estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques (ESPRIT) algorithm, and is almost the same as that of two-dimensional MUSIC. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm can be suitable for irregular array geometry, obtain automatically paired DOD and DOA estimations, and avoid two-dimensional peak searching. The simulation results verify the effectiveness and improvement of the algorithm.     

DOA estimation for monostatic MIMO radar based on unitary root-MUSIC

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is an important issue for monostatic MIMO radar. A DOA estimation method for monostatic MIMO radar based on unitary root-MUSIC is presented in this article. In the presented method, a reduced-dimension matrix is first utilised to transform the high dimension of received signal data into low dimension one. Then, a low-dimension real-value covariance matrix is obtained by forward–backward (FB) averaging and unitary transformation. The DOA of targets can be achieved by unitary root-MUSIC. Due to the FB averaging of received signal data and the eigendecomposition of the real-valued matrix covariance, the proposed method owns better angle estimation performance and lower computational complexity. The simulation results of the proposed method are presented and the performances are investigated and discussed.