Abstract

In this paper, a fast method to generate a constant-modulus (CM) waveform for a multiple-input, multiple-output, (MIMO) radar is proposed. To simplify the optimization process, the design of the transmit waveform is decoupled from the design of transmit beamformers (TBs) and subpulses. To further improve the computational efficiency, the TBs’ optimization is conducted in parallel, and a linear programming model is proposed to match the desired beampattern. Additionally, we incorporate the perturbation vectors into the TBs’ optimization so that the TBs can be adjusted to satisfy the CM constraint. To quickly generate the CM subpulses with the desired range-compression (RC) performance, the classical linear frequency modulation (LFM) signal and non-LFM (NLFM) are adopted as subpulses. Meanwhile, to guarantee the RC performance of the final angular waveform, the selection of LFM signal parameters is analyzed to achieve a low cross-correlation between subpulses. Numerical simulations verify the transmit beampattern performance, RC performance, and computational efficiency of the proposed method.

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