High-resolution direction finding for MIMO radar systems without eigendecomposition

Lei Huang*, Siliang Wu

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

By simultaneously transmitting and receiving multiple coded waveforms with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) configuration, the MIMO radar appears more attractive than the traditional phased array radar in performance. However, when applied in the MIMO radar system, the classical subspace-based methods for high-resolution DOA estimation are computationally prohibited as the observed covariance matrix is the Kronecker product of the transmit and receive covariance matrices, considerably increasing the size of the covariance matrix. To cure this problem, a computationally efficient subspace-based method for DOA estimation is addressed in this paper. The proposed method only needs vector-vector operations, and does not involve the covariance matrix calculation and its EVD or inversion operations. Therefore, the proposed method is computationally attractive for practical applications. Numerical results are included to illustrate the performance of the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2011 International Conference on Instrumentation, Measurement, Computer, Communication and Control, IMCCC 2011
Pages941-944
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Event1st International Conference on Instrumentation and Measurement, Computer, Communication and Control, IMCCC2011 - Beijing, China
Duration: 21 Oct 201123 Oct 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2011 International Conference on Instrumentation, Measurement, Computer, Communication and Control, IMCCC 2011

Conference

Conference1st International Conference on Instrumentation and Measurement, Computer, Communication and Control, IMCCC2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period21/10/1123/10/11

Keywords

  • Sensor array processing
  • direction of arrival (DOA)
  • eigendecomposition
  • multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar

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