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Diversity smoothing has been widely developed for angle estimation with bistatic multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar in the presence of coherent targets, the parameter identifiability of which is an important issue. In this paper, we are devoted to establishing more accurate conditions by studying the positive definiteness of smoothed target covariance matrix. The antenna numbers of transmit and receive arrays are derived as functions of the target number and target structure. We show that the new results improve upon previous ones and recover them in special cases.

We propose a generalized thinned coprime array by introducing the flexible inter-element spacings, where the conventional one can be seen as a special case. We derive closed-form expression for the range of consecutive lags, written as the functions of the antenna numbers and inter-element spacings. We show that, after optimization, the proposed array can achieve more consecutive lags than the other coprime arrays. In particular, the optimized results also provide the minimum number of antenna pairs with small separation.

Many works have been done in direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in the presence of sensor gain and phase uncertainties in the past decades. Most of the existing approaches require either auxiliary sources with exactly known DOAs or perfectly partly calibrated arrays. In this work, we consider sparsely contaminated arrays in which only a few sensors are contaminated by sensor gain and phase errors, and moreover, the number of contaminated sensors as well as their positions are unknown.

Accurate and efficient methods for Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation play an important role in mmWave channel estimation methods. This estimation procedure can potentially be affected by the different RF and analog components in the communication system. Such components add an unknown, nonlinear distortion to the received signal. This work looks at addressing this problem of DOA estimation for a general case of a nonlinear distortion of the received signal. Two different scenarios for angle recovery are considered here: with the use of pilot symbols and without the use of pilots.

Arrays of closely-spaced antennas with mutual coupling have been considered recently with analogies to the hearing mechanism in small insects that exhibit excellent direction finding capabilities. We develop a model for a two-element array system that includes three distinct noise sources and a 4-port electrical network that couples the antennas to the measurement loads. The optimum coupling network that minimizes the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for angle of arrival (AOA) estimation is derived and a design method is presented to synthesize the network.

Motivated by real-world automotive radar measurements that are distributed around object (e.g., vehicles) edges with a certain volume, a novel hierarchical truncated Gaussian measurement model is proposed to resemble the underlying spatial distribution of radar measurements. With the proposed measurement model, a modified random matrix-based extended object tracking algorithm is developed to estimate both kinematic and extent states. In particular, a new state update step and an online bound estimation step are proposed with the introduction of pseudo measurements.