Title :
A cylindrical antenna array for MIMO radar applications
Author :
Xuan Hui Wu ; Abdalla, Mohamed Yehia Ahmed
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng. & Technol., Minnesota State Univ., Mankato, MN, USA
Abstract :
A eight-element cylindrical antenna array is presented for MIMO radar applications. Each element is a printed fat dipole that operates at 3GHz. It provides a 360° full angle coverage of the azimuth plane and is able to estimate the direction of a target in any angle. Cramèr-Rao Lower Bound for a target´s direction is computed for different values of signal to noise ratio. It shows that the antenna array provides stable estimation performance over the entire azimuth plane.
Keywords :
MIMO radar; dipole antenna arrays; estimation theory; microstrip antenna arrays; microwave antenna arrays; Cramer-Rao lower bound; MIMO radar; azimuth plane; eight-element cylindrical antenna array; frequency 3 GHz; printed fat dipole; target direction; Antenna arrays; Arrays; Azimuth; Dipole antennas; Estimation; MIMO radar; Radar antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Memphis, TN
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3538-3
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2014.6904573
