DOA tracking based on MIMO radar in impulsive noise background

MIMO radar can provide enhanced spatial resolution and achieve better target detection performance. Hence the parameter identifiability of the system can be significantly improved. In this paper, the issue of direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar is discussed, and several algorithms for DOA tracking based on monostatic MIMO radar in impulsive noise background are proposed and studied. These tracking algorithms are based on the concept of robust covariation (ROC), fractional lower order moment (FLOM), fractional lower order cyclic (FLOC) and similar normalization. The transmit and receive arrays of a monostatic narrowband MIMO radar are assumed to be close to each other and eigenstructure based MUSIC algorithm at the receiver is used to identify the DOA's of the targets of interest. Simulation results verify the usefulness of the proposed algorithms. The comparison of these four tracking algorithms show that the algorithm based on the concept of similar normalization has better performance than the others.

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