In this paper, we propose a two-dimensional (2D) joint transmit array interpolation and beamspace design for planar array mono-static multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radar for direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation via tensor modeling. Our underlying idea is to map the transmit array to a desired array and suppress the transmit power outside the spatial sector of interest. In doing so, the signal-tonoise ratio is improved at the receive array. Then, we fold the received data along each dimension into a tensorial structure and apply tensor-based methods to obtain DOA estimates. In addition, we derive a close-form expression for DOA estimation bias caused by interpolation errors and argue for using a specially designed look-up table to compensate the bias. The corresponding Cramer-Rao Bound (CRB) is also derived. Simulation results are provided to show the performance of the proposed method and compare its performance to CRB.
@article{arxiv.1705.02357,
title = {Transmit Array Interpolation for DOA Estimation via Tensor Decomposition in 2D MIMO Radar},
author = {Ming-Yang Cao and Sergiy A. Vorobyov and Aboulnasr Hassanien},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.02357},
year = {2018}
}
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37 pages, 13 figures, Submitted to the IEEE Trans. Signal Processing in December 2016