Motion compensation for TDM MIMO radar by sparse reconstruction

A motion-compensation method that applies sparse reconstruction (SR) to reconstruct the Doppler spectrum of targets based on a random transmission scheme is proposed for time-division multiplexing (TDM) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar. Since the random transmission can eliminate the characteristic of periodic time-delay in conventional TDM scheme between transmit cycles, the angle information of a target is not affected by its motion. Therefore, the angle and velocity are no longer coupled with each other and can be estimated separately. This method not only overcome the space–frequency coupling problem but also enhances the unambiguous Doppler interval. Another advantage is that the method is valid even when the estimated target velocity is ambiguous. The results reported here offer the possibility of utilising SR to solve conventional TDM MIMO problems. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by experimental results.