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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Performance evaluation and waveform design for MIMO radar

Du, Chaoran January 2010 (has links)
Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar has been receiving increasing attention in recent years due to the dramatic advantages offered by MIMO systems in communications. The amount of energy reflected from a common radar target varies considerably with the observation angle, and these scintillations may cause signal fading which severely degrades the performance of conventional radars. MIMO radar with widely spaced antennas is able to view several aspects of a target simultaneously, which realizes a spatial diversity gain to overcome the target scintillation problem, leading to significantly enhanced system performance. Building on the initial studies presented in the literature, MIMO radar is investigated in detail in this thesis. First of all, a finite scatterers model is proposed, based on which the target detection performance of a MIMO radar system with arbitrary array-target configurations is evaluated and analyzed. A MIMO radar involving a realistic target is also set up, whose simulation results corroborate the conclusions drawn based on theoretical target models, validating in a practical setting the improvements in detection performance brought in by the MIMO radar configuration. Next, a hybrid bistatic radar is introduced, which combines the phased-array and MIMO radar configurations to take advantage of both coherent processing gain and spatial diversity gain simultaneously. The target detection performance is first assessed, followed by the evaluation of the direction finding performance, i.e., performance of estimating angle of arrival as well as angel of departure. The presented theoretical expressions can be used to select the best architecture for a radar system, particularly when the total number of antennas is fixed. Finally, a novel two phase radar scheme involving signal retransmission is studied. It is based on the time-reversal (TR) detection and is investigated to improve the detection performance of a wideband MIMO radar or sonar system. Three detectors demanding various amounts of a priori information are developed, whose performance is evaluated and compared. Three schemes are proposed to design the retransmitted waveform with constraints on the transmitted signal power, further enhancing the detection performance with respect to the TR approach.
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Experimental Testing and Evaluation of Orthogonal Waveforms for MIMO Radar with an Emphasis on Modified Golay Codes

Burwell, Alex 26 August 2014 (has links)
No description available.
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Performance bounds in terms of estimation and resolution and applications in array processing / Performances limites en termes d’estimation et de résolution et applications aux traitements d’antennes

Tran, Nguyen Duy 24 September 2012 (has links)
Cette thèse porte sur l'analyse des performances en traitement du signal et se compose de deux parties: Premièrement, nous étudions les bornes inférieures dans la caractérisation et la prédiction des performances en termes d'erreur quadratique moyenne (EQM). Les bornes inférieures de l'EQM donne la variance minimale qu'un estimateur peut atteindre et peuvent être divisées en deux catégories: les bornes déterministes pour le modèle où les paramètres sont supposés déterministes (mais inconnus), et les bornes Bayésiennes pour le modèle où les paramètres sont supposés aléatoires. En particulier, nous dérivons les expressions analytiques de ces bornes pour deux applications différentes: (i) La première est la localisation des sources en utilisant un radar multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). Nous considérons les bornes inférieures dans deux contextes c'est-à-dire avec ou sans erreurs de modèle. (ii) La deuxième est l'estimation de phase d'impulsion de pulsars à rayon X qui est une solution potentielle pour la navigation autonome dans l'espace. Pour cette application, nous avons calculé plusieurs bornes inférieures de l'EQM dans le contexte de données modélisées par une loi de Poisson (complétant ainsi les travaux disponibles dans la littérature où les données sont modélisées par une loi gaussienne). Deuxièmement, nous étudions le seuil statistique de résolution limite (SRL), qui est la distance minimale en termes des paramètres d'intérêts entre les deux signaux permettant de séparer / estimer correctement les paramètres d'intérêt. Plus précisément, nous dérivons le SRL dans deux contextes: le traitement d'antenne et le radar MIMO en utilisant deux approches basées sur la théorie de l'estimation et sur la théorie de l'information. Finalement, nous proposons des expressions compactes du SRL dans le cas d'erreurs de modèle. / This manuscript concerns the performance analysis in signal processing and consists into two parts : First, we study the lower bounds in characterizing and predicting the estimation performance in terms of mean square error (MSE). The lower bounds on the MSE give the minimum variance that an estimator can expect to achieve and it can be divided into two categories depending on the parameter assumption: the so-called deterministic bounds dealing with the deterministic unknown parameters, and the so-called Bayesian bounds dealing with the random unknown parameter. Particularly, we derive the closed-form expressions of the lower bounds for two applications in two different fields: (i) The first one is the target localization using the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar in which we derive the lower bounds in the contexts with and without modeling errors, respectively. (ii) The other one is the pulse phase estimation of X-ray pulsars which is a potential solution for autonomous deep space navigation. In this application, we show the potential universality of lower bounds to tackle problems with parameterized probability density function (pdf) different from classical Gaussian pdf since in X-ray pulse phase estimation, observations are modeled with a Poisson distribution. Second, we study the statistical resolution limit (SRL) which is the minimal distance in terms of the parameter of interest between two signals allowing to correctly separate/estimate the parameters of interest. More precisely, we derive the SRL in two contexts: array processing and MIMO radar by using two approaches based on the estimation theory and information theory. We also present in this thesis the usefulness of SRL in optimizing the array system.
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Performance bounds in terms of estimation and resolution and applications in array processing

Tran, Nguyen Duy 24 September 2012 (has links) (PDF)
This manuscript concerns the performance analysis in signal processing and consists into two parts : First, we study the lower bounds in characterizing and predicting the estimation performance in terms of mean square error (MSE). The lower bounds on the MSE give the minimum variance that an estimator can expect to achieve and it can be divided into two categories depending on the parameter assumption: the so-called deterministic bounds dealing with the deterministic unknown parameters, and the so-called Bayesian bounds dealing with the random unknown parameter. Particularly, we derive the closed-form expressions of the lower bounds for two applications in two different fields: (i) The first one is the target localization using the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar in which we derive the lower bounds in the contexts with and without modeling errors, respectively. (ii) The other one is the pulse phase estimation of X-ray pulsars which is a potential solution for autonomous deep space navigation. In this application, we show the potential universality of lower bounds to tackle problems with parameterized probability density function (pdf) different from classical Gaussian pdf since in X-ray pulse phase estimation, observations are modeled with a Poisson distribution. Second, we study the statistical resolution limit (SRL) which is the minimal distance in terms of the parameter of interest between two signals allowing to correctly separate/estimate the parameters of interest. More precisely, we derive the SRL in two contexts: array processing and MIMO radar by using two approaches based on the estimation theory and information theory. We also present in this thesis the usefulness of SRL in optimizing the array system.

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