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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (8): 1474-1482.

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Joint Estimation of Angle and Doppler Frequency in Bistatic MIMO Radar Based on Quadrilinear Decomposition

LI Jianfeng, ZHANG Xiaofei   

  1. College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
  • Received:2011-08-30 Revised:2012-02-05 Online:2012-08-25 Published:2012-08-23
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China (60801052); Aeronautical Science Foundation of China (2009ZC52036); Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics Research Funding (NZ2012010); Graduate Innovative Base Open Funding of Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics

Abstract: This paper studies the joint estimation of angle and Doppler frequency in a bistatic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar, and proposes a joint angle and Doppler frequency estimation algorithm using quadrilinear decomposition. It reconstructed the delayed received-data to develop a quadrilinear data model. Using quadrilinear alternating least squares (QALS), it obtained an estimation of the direction matrix and the Doppler frequency matrix, and further the estimated angles and frequency via the least squares. The proposed algorithm requires no peek searching, does not need a priori knowledge of the reflection coefficients, and it can realize automatically paired angles and Doppler frequency. Furthermore, it is suitable for non-uniform arrays, and the angle estimation performance is better than that of multi-dimensional ESPRIT and trilinear alternating least squares (TALS). The paper analyzes the complexity of the algorithm, and derives the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB). Simulation compares the proposed algorithm with other algorithms, and verifies its validity.

Key words: MIMO radar, quadrilinear decomposition, joint estimation, Doppler frequency, least squares

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