Title :
A MIMO radar system approach to target tracking
Author :
Godrich, Hana ; Haimovich, Alexander M. ; Blum, Rick S.
Author_Institution :
New Jersey Inst. of Technol., Newark, NJ, USA
Abstract :
In this paper, tracking performance of MIMO radar systems with distributed antennas and non-coherent processing is studied. The Bayesian Cramer-Rao bound (BCRB) on target location and velocity tracking is derived and the effect of the radars geometric layout and the target location on tracking accuracies is analyzed. The impact of the number of radars on the estimation errors is examined and the contribution of the target reflectivity and path loss to tracking performance is evaluated.
Keywords :
MIMO radar; target tracking; velocity measurement; Bayesian Cramer-Rao bound; MIMO radar system; distributed antennas; estimation errors; noncoherent processing; path loss; target location; target reflectivity; target tracking; velocity tracking; Bayesian methods; Estimation error; Frequency; MIMO; Narrowband; Performance loss; Radar antennas; Radar cross section; Radar tracking; Target tracking; BCRB; MIMO radars; target tracking;
Conference_Titel :
Signals, Systems and Computers, 2009 Conference Record of the Forty-Third Asilomar Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pacific Grove, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5825-7
DOI :
10.1109/ACSSC.2009.5470001
