Performance bounds on micro-Doppler estimation and adaptive waveform design using OFDM signals

Satyabrata Sen; Jacob Barhen; Charles W. Glover

doi:10.1117/12.2049404

29 May 2014 Performance bounds on micro-Doppler estimation and adaptive waveform design using OFDM signals

Satyabrata Sen, Jacob Barhen, Charles W. Glover

Proceedings Volume 9077, Radar Sensor Technology XVIII; 907713 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2049404
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2014, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

We analyze the performance of a wideband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal in estimating the micro-Doppler frequency of a target having multiple rotating scatterers (e.g., rotor blades of a helicopter, propellers of a submarine). The presence of rotating scatterers introduces Doppler frequency modulation in the received signal by generating sidebands about the transmitted frequencies. This is called the micro-Doppler effects. The use of a frequency-diverse OFDM signal in this context enables us to independently analyze the micro-Doppler characteristics with respect to a set of orthogonal subcarrier frequencies. Therefore, to characterize the accuracy of micro-Doppler frequency estimation, we compute the Cram´er-Rao Bound (CRB) on the angular-velocity estimate of the target while considering the scatterer responses as deterministic but unknown nuisance parameters. Additionally, to improve the accuracy of the estimation procedure, we formulate and solve an optimization problem by minimizing the CRB on the angular-velocity estimate with respect to the transmitting OFDM spectral coefficients. We present several numerical examples to demonstrate the CRB variations at different values of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the number of OFDM subcarriers. The CRB values not only decrease with the increase in the SNR values, but also reduce as we increase the number of subcarriers implying the significance of frequency-diverse OFDM waveforms. The improvement in estimation accuracy due to the adaptive waveform design is also numerically analyzed. Interestingly, we find that the relative decrease in the CRBs on the angular-velocity estimate is more pronounced for larger number of OFDM subcarriers.

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Satyabrata Sen, Jacob Barhen, and Charles W. Glover "Performance bounds on micro-Doppler estimation and adaptive waveform design using OFDM signals", Proc. SPIE 9077, Radar Sensor Technology XVIII, 907713 (29 May 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2049404

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