Joint DOD and DOA Estimation for MIMO Array With Velocity Receive Sensors

This letter investigates the problem of joint estimation of the direction of departure (DOD) and the direction of arrival (DOA) for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) array systems. A new bistatic MIMO array system, configured with multiple transmit sensors and multiple velocity receive sensors is introduced, and a new joint DOD and DOA estimation algorithm is proposed. The key idea behind the proposed algorithm is to use the DOA information embedded in the velocity sensors to start 1-D MUSIC searches for the DOD and DOA in succession. The proposed successive MUSIC algorithm is suitable for irregular array geometry, imposes less constraint on the receive sensor spacing, and requires no parameter pairing nor two-dimensional searching.