Target localization in distributed MIMO radar 
				systems
				 
				
				King Fahd University of 
				Petroleum and Minerals
				
				Electrical Engineering 
				Department
				
				
				Seminar Series 
				 
				
				
				Date           :        
				Tuesday, January 19, 2010
				
				
				Time           :        
				1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
				
				
				Venue        :        
				Building 59 Room 2002 
				 
				
				
				
				Abstract
				
					
					The 
					Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar concept is 
					based on a set of widely separated transmit and 
					receive radars having the ability to jointly process the 
					received signals. For most applications, time 
					synchronization among radars is a sufficient requirement. 
					These are classified as non-coherent systems. High 
					resolution target location estimation is based on 
					phase synchronization among radars and is defined as 
					coherent processing. The lower bound on target 
					localization error was derived by use of the
					Cramér-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) on 
					target localization accuracy for coherent MIMO radar 
					systems. The spatial advantage is found to be proportional 
					to MN where M is the number of transmit radars 
					and N is the number of receive radars. The coherence 
					advantage is proportional to fc/B 
					where fc is 
					the signal carrier frequency and B is the bandwidth. 
					In low SNR, the estimation capabilities are predominated by
					sidelobe ambiguity. 
					Thinned and randomized nature of elements in the MIMO radar 
					results in the ability to break the grating lobes and leads 
					to the reduction of peak side lobe level proportional 
					MN. In this seminar, we also discuss the possibility to 
					trade-off bandwidth to the number of radar elements by the 
					use of multi-carrier signals.