Iterative design of MIMO radar transmit waveforms and receive filter bank

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an iterative design approach to jointly optimize probing signal waveforms and a receive filter bank for a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar under a constant modulus constraint. The design goals are to approximate a desired beampattern and to minimize the auto-/cross- correlation levels of the probing signal waveforms for different time lags and between different spatial angles. Since the overall design problem is nonconvex, we propose to optimize the transmit probing signals and receive filter bank separately and alternately. The optimization of receive filter bank is a standard least squares problem, while the optimization of the constant modulus transmit signal waveforms is a norm-constrained least squares problem which can be approximately solved using a low-rank semidefinite relaxation procedure. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach through a simulation example.