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A direction tracking algorithm based on the repulsive force model with low SNR in MIMO HF sky-wave radar

  • School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

In MIMO HF sky-wave radar, the spatial spectrum estimation technology is used to obtain the estimates of the Direction-Of-Departure (DOD) and the Direction-Of-Arrival (DOA) of signals of interest and the 'undesired' signals for suppressing the multipath clutter of the instability ionosphere layer. However, in the case of low Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), the biases of the estimates of the direction of the signals and clutter are relatively large. And the biases could not be calibrated by the conventional Particle Filter (PF) algorithm. Therefore, in this paper, a direction tracking algorithm based on the repulsive force model with low SNR in MIMO HF sky-wave radar is proposed to improve the accuracy of the direction tracking. Firstly, the MUSIC algorithm based on the Toeplitz approximation is used to obtain the directions of the signals, which are most often taken as the coherent sources for better resolution performance. Secondly, we develop the repulsive force model with Stochastic Differential Equations (SDE), and add it to the Markov Chain Monte Carlo Particle Filter (MCMC-PF) algorithm. We compare the azimuth estimates obtained by the MUSIC algorithm based on the Toeplitz approximation method using the PF algorithm with the repulsive force model and the PF algorithm without the repulsive force model. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of this algorithm. The algorithm can be applied to DOD and DOA estimates of the azimuth and the elevation with the proper antenna array.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICSPCC 2016 - IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, Conference Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781509027088
DOIs
StatePublished - 22 Nov 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event2016 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, ICSPCC 2016 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 5 Aug 20168 Aug 2016

Publication series

NameICSPCC 2016 - IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, Conference Proceedings

Conference

Conference2016 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, ICSPCC 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period5/08/168/08/16

Keywords

  • MIMO HF sky-wave radar
  • Particle Filter
  • Repulsive Force Model

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