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Multi-target Range and Angle detection for MIMO-FMCW radar with limited antennas

Signal Processing 2023-03-01 v1

Abstract

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar has several advantages with respect to the traditional radar array systems in terms of performance and flexibility. However, in order to achieve high angular resolution, a MIMO radar requires a large number of transmit and receive antennas, which increases hardware design and computational complexities. Although spatial compressive sensing (CS) has been recently considered for a pulsed-waveform MIMO radar with sparse random arrays, such methods for the frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar remain largely unexplored. In this context, we propose a novel multi-target localization algorithm in the range-angle domain for a MIMO FMCW radar with a sparse array of randomly placed transmit and receive elements. In particular, we first obtain the targets' range-delays using a discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-based focusing operation. The target angles are then recovered at each detected range using CS-based techniques exploiting the sparsity of the target scene. Our simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm over the classical methods in detecting multiple targets with a sparse array.

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@article{arxiv.2302.14327,
  title  = {Multi-target Range and Angle detection for MIMO-FMCW radar with limited antennas},
  author = {Himali Singh and Arpan Chattopadhyay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.14327},
  year   = {2023}
}
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