Adaptive waveform selection for multistatic target tracking

Author

Ngoc Nguyen ; Dogancay, Kutluyil ; Davis, Linda

Author_Institution

Inst. for Telecommun. Res., Univ. of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

Volume

51

Issue

1

fYear

2015

fDate

Jan-15

Firstpage

688

Lastpage

701

Abstract

This paper studies the problem of adaptive waveform selection for target tracking by a multistatic radar system consisting of a dedicated transmitter and multiple receivers. The transmitted waveforms are selected to minimize the tracking mean square error by minimizing a tracking cost function obtained using the Craḿer-Rao lower bound of radar estimates. The superior performance of the proposed adaptive waveform selection algorithm over conventional waveforms is illustrated with simulation examples.

Keywords

mean square error methods; radar receivers; radar signal processing; radar tracking; radar transmitters; target tracking; Craḿer-Rao lower bound; adaptive waveform selection algorithm; dedicated transmitter; multiple receivers; multistatic radar system; multistatic target tracking; radar estimates; tracking cost function minimization; tracking mean square error minimization; Delay effects; Doppler shift; Multistatic radar; Radar tracking; Receivers; Target tracking;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9251

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAES.2014.130723

Filename

7073522