Association-Aware Radar Beamforming

Association-Aware Radar Beamforming

Data association, which assigns radar target detections to target tracks, is a critical component of a radar receiver. Motivated by its importance, this paper introduces the problem of MIMO radar transmit beamforming, which explicitly takes this association step into account. Association-aware beamf...

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Published in:2018 52nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers pp. 1905 - 1909
Main Authors: Niesen, Urs, Unnikrishnan, Jayakrishnan
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01-10-2018
Subjects:
Array signal processing
Gain
Radar antennas
Radar tracking
Receivers
Target tracking
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Summary:Data association, which assigns radar target detections to target tracks, is a critical component of a radar receiver. Motivated by its importance, this paper introduces the problem of MIMO radar transmit beamforming, which explicitly takes this association step into account. Association-aware beamforming design yields two benefits. First, by avoiding simultaneous illumination of hard to disambiguate targets, the resulting association problem is simplified. Second, by allowing simultaneous illumination of easily disambiguated targets, detection performance is improved. These benefits manifest in a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain and an identifiability gain.
ISSN:2576-2303
DOI:10.1109/ACSSC.2018.8645105