Feasible Sparse Spectrum Fitting of DOA and Range Estimation for Collocated FDA-MIMO radars

Abstract

The size of an over complete dictionary seriously affects the computation speed of on-grid sparse algorithms. In the case of multi parameter estimation, the required dictionary size increases rapidly by multiplication to ensure the accuracy of the results. Therefore, it becomes infeasible to estimate all of the parameters directly by on-grid methods. In this paper, the feasible sparse spectrum fitting (SpSF) algorithm for computing both the direction of arrival (DOA) and range estimation in collocated FDA-MIMO radars is introduced. Firstly, due to fact that a receive spatial frequency only depends on the angle, a covariance fitting technique for data preprocessing is adopted to reshape the data for DOA estimation. Next, the range is calculated in the transmit-receive spatial frequency domain by the SpSF algorithm. In addition, to improve the computational efficiency for an increased number of targets, the traditional convex optimization is replaced with a one-dimensional peak search approximation. Numerical simulations are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.