MIMO beamforming and error analysis

Author

Graham, Timothy D. ; Bradstreet, Lance M.

Author_Institution

SRC, Inc., Syracuse, NY, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

10-15 May 2015

Firstpage

1010

Lastpage

1014

Abstract

Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) processing is used in radar systems to improve performance. When forming MIMO beams, the receive weighting function must take into account not only the receive element location but each transmit phase center location as well. This leads to more complex beamforming process and weight calculation. The beamforming process that takes into account transmit and receive phase centers has an added benefit where beam pointing errors due to elemental magnitude and phase errors are reduced. This paper discusses the benefits of MIMO, the calculation of proper weights for use in the beamforming process, and the reduced system level errors that result from beamforming in this manner.

Keywords

MIMO radar; array signal processing; radar signal processing; MIMO beamforming analysis; multiple input multiple output processing; phase center location; radar system error analysis; weighting function; Apertures; Array signal processing; Arrays; MIMO; Mathematical model; Radar; Radar antennas; MIMO; array error; beamforming; detection accuracy; monopulse error; multipath; phase center; radar; subarray; virtual array; waveform diversity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference (RadarCon), 2015 IEEE

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-8231-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2015.7131142

Filename

7131142