Auto-calibration of Automotive MIMO Radars Using Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping

This paper presents a new method of automotive MIMO radar self-calibration which uses targets of opportunity embedded in road infrastructure, such as road signs and traffic lights. While conventional offline calibration of a phased array antenna requires accurate knowledge of the positions of calibration targets relative to the radar, such...

An Approach for High-Angular Resolution Implementation in Moving Automotive MIMO Radar

A method exploiting the movement of the vehicle to boost the cross-range resolution of automotive radar by forming a larger virtual array is proposed. Initial simulated results show that the proposed method with the traditional Digital beamforming (DBF) algorithm can separate targets that cannot be otherwise recognized by the traditional MIMO...

Enhancing MIMO Array Imaging Quality

For radar imaging, resolution and dynamic range are two critical metrics to measure image quality. MIMO array exploits the spatial diversity of transmitters and receivers to achieve high cross-range resolution with fewer antennas than array-based imaging.<br/> Generally, to make full use of the sparsity, at least the transmit array or the...

3-D Short-Range Imaging with Irregular MIMO Arrays Using NUFFT-Based Range Migration Algorithm

3-D imaging with irregular planar multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) arrays is discussed. Due to signal acquisition on irregular spatial sampling grids by using these antenna arrays, the fast Fourier transform (FFT)-based imaging algorithms cannot readily be used for image formation. To avoid the application of computationally intensive...