Optimum Design for Sparse FDA-MIMO Automotive Radar
English
Sedighi, Saeid[University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > >]
Shankar, Bhavani[University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > >]
Mishra, Kumar Vijay[University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT)]
Ottersten, Björn[University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > >]
3-Nov-2019
Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
IEEE
Yes
CA, USA
The $53^{\rm nd}$ annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
3-10-2019 to 6-10-2019
Pacific Grove
CA, USA
[en] Automotive radar ; MIMO radar ; frequency diverse array
[en] Automotive radars usually employ multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna arrays to achieve high azimuthal resolution with fewer elements than a phased array. Despite this advantage, hardware costs and desired radar size limits the usage of more antennas in the array. Similar trade-off is encountered while attempting to achieve high range resolution which is limited by the signal bandwidth. However, nowadays given the demand for spectrum from communications services, wide bandwidth is not readily available. To address these issues, we propose a sparse variant of Frequency Diverse Array MIMO (FDA-MIMO) radar which enjoys the benefits of both FDA and MIMO techniques, including fewer elements, decoupling, and efficient joint estimation of target parameters. We then employ the Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound for angle and range estimation as a performance metric to design the optimal antenna placement and carrier frequency offsets for the transmit waveforms. Numerical experiments suggest that the performance of sparse FDA-MIMO radar is very close to the conventional FDA-MIMO despite 50\% reduction in the bandwidth and antenna elements.
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