Temporal-spatial subspaces modern combination method for 2D-DOA estimation in MIMO radar

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2017-04-14
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A2D-directionofarrivalestimation(DOAE)formultiinputandmulti-output(MIMO)radarusingimprovedmultipletemporal-spatialsubspacesinestimatingsignalparametersviarotationalinvariancetechniquesmethod(TS-ESPRIT)isintroduced.InordertorealizetheimprovedTS-ESPRIT,theproposedalgorithmpidestheplanararrayintomultipleuniformsub-planararrayswithcommonreferencepointtogetaunifiedphaseshiftsmeasurementpointforallsub-arrays.TheTS-ESPRITisappliedtoeachsub-arrayseparately,andinthesametimewiththeotherstorealizetheparallellytemporalandspatialprocessing,sothatitreducesthenon-linearityeffectofmodelanddecreasesthecomputationaltime.Then,thetimedifferenceofarrival(TDOA)techniqueisappliedtocombinethemultiplesub-arraysinordertoformtheimprovedTS-ESPRIT.Itisfoundthattheproposedmethodachieveshighaccuracyatalowsignaltonoiseratio(SNR)withlowcomputationalcomplexity,leadingtoenhancementoftheestimatorsperformance.