Robust beamforming for jammers suppression in MIMO radar

Yongzhe Li, Sergiy A. Vorobyov, Aboulnasr Hassanien
2014 2014 IEEE Radar Conference  
Robust beamforming for multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) radar in the background of powerful jamming signals is investigated in this paper. We design two minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) type beamformers with adaptiveness/robustness against the powerful jammers for colocated MIMO radar. Specifically, the MVDR beamformer is firstly designed for known jammers in the sector-of-interest, which maintains distortionless response towards the direction of the target while imposing
more » ... s towards the directions of jammers. Then the adaptive/robust MVDR beamformer is designed for the general case of unknown in-sector jammers and/or out-of-sector interfering sources. Convex optimization techniques are used in both of the designs. Moreover, we derive a closed-form solution to the simplified second design. Based on this solution, we derive efficient power estimates of the desired and/or interfering sources in the context of powerful jammers and non-ideal factors such as array calibration errors and target steering vector mismatches. We demonstrate that the capability of efficient jammers suppression using these designs is unique in MIMO radar.
doi:10.1109/radar.2014.6875667 fatcat:ctkgnecxbvg6beeggluy3uke4a