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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

酉稀疏贝叶斯学习降维MIMO雷达角度估计

针对收发共址多输入多输出（Multiple-Input Multiple-Output,MIMO）雷达的低计算复杂度波达方向（Direction of Arrival,DOA）估计问题,提出一种降维的MIMO雷达高精度DOA新算法。首先采用经过白化的降维矩阵对MIMO雷达脉冲压缩后的接收信号进行降维;然后通过最优信号子空间拟合对无幅度误差阵列流型下的接收信号矩阵进行重构;接下来通过酉变换得到实值增广数据矩阵,并在实值稀疏字典矩阵下对其进行稀疏表示;接着将DOA估计问题转化为行稀疏矩阵的稀疏恢复问题,通过改进的稀疏贝叶斯学习对其进行求解,实现目标DOA的估计。理论分析和仿真实验结果验证了该方法的有效性和实用性。     

阵元失效下基于核范数和SCAD惩罚的MIMO雷达DOA估计

阵元失效下多输入多输出(Multiple-Input Multiple-Output, MIMO)雷达虚拟阵列协方差矩阵出现大批整行整列元素缺失,破坏原有内在完整结构,导致波达方向(Direction of Arrival, DOA)估计性能下降。为此,提出一种联合核范数和SCAD(Smoothly Clipped Absolute Deviation)惩罚的完整协方差矩阵重构方法,以利于阵元失效下MIMO雷达DOA的有效估计。首先对待恢复的协方差矩阵建立核范数和SCAD惩罚双先验约束模型,并利用等正弦空间稀疏化方式划分粗网格空间,在可容忍的模型误差内能大大降低运算复杂度;然后利用ALM-ADMM(Augmented Lagrange Multipliers-Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers)算法对双先验约束模型进行求解,从而恢复协方差矩阵中大量整行整列的缺失数据;最后通过RD-ESPRIT(Reduced Dimensional ESPRIT)算法进行目标DOA估计。仿真结果验证该方法能快速恢复虚拟协方差矩阵中的缺失数据,从而有效...     

基于十字阵的MIMO雷达的二维DOA估计

多输入多输出（MIMO）雷达使用多个天线同时发射独立波形,在不同位置的目标回波彼此线性独立,以获得较好的空间分辨率。文章提出了基于收发不共位的线阵在水平面内构成十字阵的MIMO雷达信号模型;研究利用MUSIC算法来估计该模型下的MIMO雷达的二维波达角;分析了基于均匀十字阵的MIMO雷达的优越性,并探讨了十字阵MIMO雷达性能与阵元间距的关系,仿真表明,在满足远场条件下,均匀十字阵比均匀线阵可以估计更多的目标而且精度更高;通过非均匀布阵,可以进一步提高MIMO雷达的二维波达角的估计精度。