Target localization accuracy gain in MIMO radar-based systems

  • Authors:

  • Hana Godrich;Alexander M. Haimovich;Rick S. Blum

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ;Department of Electrical Engineering Computer Science, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of target localization accuracy, attainable by the use of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar systems, configured with multiple transmit and receive sensors, widely distributed over an area. The Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) for target localization accuracy is developed for both coherent and noncoherent processing. Coherent processing requires a common phase reference for all transmit and receive sensors. The CRLB is shown to be inversely proportional to the signal effective bandwidth in the noncoherent case, but is approximately inversely proportional to the carrier frequency in the coherent case. We further prove that optimization over the sensors' positions lowers the CRLB by a factor equal to the product of the number of transmitting and receiving sensors. The best linear unbiased estimator (BLUE) is derived for the MIMO target localization problem. The BLUE's utility is in providing a closed-form localization estimate that facilitates the analysis of the relations between sensors locations, target location, and localization accuracy. Geometric dilution of precision (GDOP) contours are used to map the relative performance accuracy for a given layout of radars over a given geographic area.