Design and Development of MIMO Radar

RADAR works on the principle of reflection and need not have clear visibility to LOS, by using radio waves position, range, angle, or velocity can be determined based on received echo signal. Loss of signals and interference is more with SISO system. Therefore, MIMO system is used to minimize errors, improve resolution, and signal-to-noise ratio as they provide substantially improved immunity to interference and detection probability of the targets. This paper deals with the development of a MIMO radar system of the proposed design specification in LabVIEW (software) and with that, detection and characterization of the target are done and further comparison with the SISO radar system.

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