Nonlinear Frequency Offset Beam Design for FDA-MIMO Radar

The beam pattern of frequency diversity array (FDA) radar has a range-angle two-dimensional degree of freedom, which makes it possible to distinguish different targets from the same angle and brings a new approach to anti-jamming of radars. However, the beam pattern of conventional linearly frequency-biased FDA radar is range-angle-coupled and time-varying. The method of adding nonlinear frequency bias among the array elements of the FDA array has been shown to eliminate this coupling property while still allowing for better beam performance of the emitted beam. In this paper, we obtain a decoupled and time-invariant beam direction map using the FDA-multi-input-multi-output (FDA-MIMO) radar scheme and then obtain a sharp pencil-shaped main sphere beam pattern with range-angle dependence using a linear frequency offset scheme weighted by a Chebyshev window. Finally, the anti-interference performance of the proposed method is verified in an anti-interference experiment.

Automated summary

The beam pattern of frequency diversity array (FDA) radar has a range-angle two-dimensional degree of freedom, which brings a new approach to anti-jamming of radars. The conventional linearly frequency-biased FDA radar has a range-angle-coupled and time-varying beam pattern, but adding nonlinear frequency bias among the array elements can eliminate this coupling property while still maintaining better beam performance. In this paper, a decoupled and time-invariant beam direction map is obtained using the FDA-multi-input-multi-output (FDA-MIMO) radar scheme, and a sharp pencil-shaped main sphere beam pattern with range-angle dependence is achieved using a linear frequency offset scheme weighted by a Chebyshev window. The anti-interference performance of the proposed method is verified in an experiment.