Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2024, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (8): 2629-2640.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2024.08.11

• Sensors and Signal Processing • Previous Articles    

High resolution angle measurement method for cascaded millimeter wave radar based on sparse matrix completion

Minglong ZHANG1, Yulin WU1, Wenqiang WEI1, Yuanjie SHEN1, Shisheng GUO1,2, Guolong CUI1,2,*   

  1. 1. School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
    2. Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Quzhou), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Quzhou 324003, China
  • Received:2023-04-14 Online:2024-07-25 Published:2024-08-07
  • Contact: Guolong CUI

Abstract:

Cascaded millimeter wave radar cascades multiple radio frequency chips to realize large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna array. However, the existing angle measurement methods of millimeter wave radar have problems such as insufficient accuracy and high sidelobes. To solve these problems, a high resolution angle measurement method for cascaded millimeter wave radar is proposed based on sparse matrix completion. Firstly, a two-dimensional sparse array signal model of the cascaded millimeter wave radar is established. Then, the single snapshot signal of the array is converted into a low-rank Hankel matrix, the weighted inexact augmented Lagrange multiplier method is used for sparse matrix completion, and the completed matrix is converted into the single snapshot signal of uniform virtual array. Finally, conventional beamforming (CBF) method is used to estimate the angles of the targets and the angles of the targets are paired. The simulation and experimental results show that the proposed method can accurately estimate the angles of the targets and effectively suppress peak sidelobe level.

Key words: cascaded millimeter wave radar, direction of arrival (DOA) estimation, sparse matrix, matrix completion

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