A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radarwith widely separated antennas on moving platforms suffers from the effects of platform deviations on the target parameter estimation since the trajectories of the moving platforms are sensitive to environmental factors, such as strong wind. This article addresses the joint estimation of multiple target positions and velocities as well as radar system deviations to minimize the impact of platform deviations. The proposed algorithm can also be regarded as a self-calibration technique. First, the grid search dimensions for parameter estimation are reduced via a generalized maximum likelihood (GML) algorithm. Second, the adaptive gradient (AdaGrad) method is used to implement the GML estimation for multitarget echo delays and Doppler shifts. Finally, to address the nonlinear estimation problem of interest, the iterative least squares method is used to estimate the multiple target positions and velocities as well as radar system deviations based on the estimated delays and Doppler shifts. Prior information, such as target positions or the probability distribution of the echo coefficient, is not needed in the proposed method. The parameter identifiability is also derived in this article. Numerical simulations show that compared to a method without the estimation of system deviations, the proposed method is more efficient with respect to the derived Cramér–Rao bound.


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    Title :

    Joint Estimation of Target Parameters and System Deviations in MIMO Radar With Widely Separated Antennas on Moving Platforms


    Contributors:
    Lu, Jiaxin (author) / Liu, Feifeng (author) / Sun, Jingyi (author) / Liu, Quanhua (author) / Miao, Yingjie (author)


    Publication date :

    2021-10-01


    Size :

    1341062 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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