分布式相参雷达自适应和差波束测角方法

doi:10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2025.03.10

Abstract

Abstract:

Distributed coherent radar has obvious advantages in anti-jamming and performance of target detection. However, the grating lobes caused by distributed configuration bring great difficulties to estimation of direction of arrival (DOA) for target. Based on the uniform distributed coherent array, the sum and difference beamforming (SDB) method is expanded to the grating lobes region of distributed arrays, and the characteristics of angular response curve (ARC) is analyzed using double-direction method. A fuzzy resolution angle measurement method is proposed based on multi-frequency adaptive SDB (MF-ASDB) algorithm. At different frequencies, this method finishes scanning and detecting with the help of dense grating lobes, calculates the main fuzzy value with ASDB method, which is extended to obtain DOA ambiguity values including true angles of targets. According to the angular offset relationship between frequencies and periods of grating lobes, the least squares method is used to achieve DOA fuzzy resolution. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Key words: direction of arrival (DOA) estimation, distributed coherent radar, adaptive sum and difference beamforming (ASDB), multi-frequency fuzzy resolution, angular response curve (ARC)

CLC Number:

TN911.23

Jinrong LONG, Jianxin WU, Yi LIANG. Angle measurement method for distributed coherent radar based on adaptive sum and difference beamforming[J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 47(3): 779-787.

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模糊值k	C_ARC值	对应模糊值
0、4	0	k_GL
1、2、3	跳变	k_zero
1.5、2.5	0	k_SL

符号	定义	取值
f_c/GHz	中心频率	1
B/MHz	信号带宽	20
T_p/μs	脉冲宽度	5
N	分布式节点数	4
M	节点阵元数	8
d	阵元间距	c/(2f_c)
L_a/m	节点基线	100
B_f/MHz	载频变化带宽	50
L	载频个数	4

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