Abstract
There is a large amount of research and development of continuous MIMO radars. The developmentprocess of the antenna aperture for MIMO radars is different from the development oftraditional antenna arrays. The use of mutually orthogonal signals on the transmitting elements incombination with the digitization of all receiving channels allows to form a virtual antenna arrayby repeating the receiving antenna array at the locations of the transmitting antenna elements,which significantly improves the angular resolution, and makes it possible to get rid of side lobes.It is necessary to provide a high level of spatial attenuation of the signal between all of the transmittingand all of the receiving elements, to enable continuous mode of operation, so that there isno oversaturation of the receiving paths. In this paper, the process of developing an antenna aperturefor a Ku-band MIMO radar is considered, including the following steps: calculating the requirementsfor spatial attenuation between antenna elements, optimization of antenna elementsrelative coordinates, electromagnetic simulation of: a single emitter, spatial attenuation of signals,and the resulting characteristics of antenna elements. As a result of the selection and optimizationof the receiving and transmitting antenna elements relative coordinates, a structure of 32 transmittingand 16 receiving elements was designed with spatial dimensions of 30 by 19 cm. The formedvirtual antenna array consists of 512 elements with effective spatial dimensions of 19 by 38 cm.These results promise the sector of operation of ±60 degrees in both planes and potential resolutionof no more than 1.5 by 3 degrees (azimuth and elevation, respectively).Calculation and electromagneticsimulation of spatial signal attenuation between transmitting and receiving antennaelements showed that the designed antenna array configuration allows obtaining an attenuation of66 dB, which is consistent with the design requirements.
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