To enhance direction of arrival(DOA)estimation accuracy,this paper proposes a low-cost method for calibrating farfield steering vectors of large aperture millimeter wave radar(mmWR).To this end,we first derive the ste...To enhance direction of arrival(DOA)estimation accuracy,this paper proposes a low-cost method for calibrating farfield steering vectors of large aperture millimeter wave radar(mmWR).To this end,we first derive the steering vectors with amplitude and phase errors,assuming that mmWR works in the time-sharing mode.Then,approximate relationship between the near-field calibration steering vector and the far-field calibration steering vector is analyzed,which is used to accomplish the mapping between the two of them.Finally,simulation results verify that the proposed method can effectively improve the angle measurement accuracy of mmWR with existing amplitude and phase errors.展开更多
This paper studies the adaptive beamforming algorithm based on the frequency diverse array(FDA)array where the interference is located at the same angle(but different range)with the target.We take the cross subarray-b...This paper studies the adaptive beamforming algorithm based on the frequency diverse array(FDA)array where the interference is located at the same angle(but different range)with the target.We take the cross subarray-based FDA with sinusoidal frequency offset(CSB sin-FDA)as the receiving array instead of the basic FDA.The sampling covariance matrix under insufficient snapshot can be corrected by the automatic diagonal loading method.On the basis of decomposing the mismatched steering vector error into a vertical component and a parallel one,this paper searches the vertical component of the error by the quadratic constraint method.The numerical simulation verifies that the beamformer based on the CSB sin-FDA can effectively hold the mainlobe at the target position when the snapshot is insufficient or the steering vector is mismatched.展开更多
文摘To enhance direction of arrival(DOA)estimation accuracy,this paper proposes a low-cost method for calibrating farfield steering vectors of large aperture millimeter wave radar(mmWR).To this end,we first derive the steering vectors with amplitude and phase errors,assuming that mmWR works in the time-sharing mode.Then,approximate relationship between the near-field calibration steering vector and the far-field calibration steering vector is analyzed,which is used to accomplish the mapping between the two of them.Finally,simulation results verify that the proposed method can effectively improve the angle measurement accuracy of mmWR with existing amplitude and phase errors.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61503408)
文摘This paper studies the adaptive beamforming algorithm based on the frequency diverse array(FDA)array where the interference is located at the same angle(but different range)with the target.We take the cross subarray-based FDA with sinusoidal frequency offset(CSB sin-FDA)as the receiving array instead of the basic FDA.The sampling covariance matrix under insufficient snapshot can be corrected by the automatic diagonal loading method.On the basis of decomposing the mismatched steering vector error into a vertical component and a parallel one,this paper searches the vertical component of the error by the quadratic constraint method.The numerical simulation verifies that the beamformer based on the CSB sin-FDA can effectively hold the mainlobe at the target position when the snapshot is insufficient or the steering vector is mismatched.
