Co-Located MIMO Radar Target Detection in Cluttered and Noisy Environment Based on 2D Block Sparse Recovery

In the co-located multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar, the matched filter receiver suffers from high range sidelobes, since the waveforms originating from different transmitters cannot be fully orthogonal. Traditional sparse recovery based receivers can suppress the sidelobes by assuming the sparsity of range profiles. However, in most practical situations, the range profile is not sparse due to the presence of clutter. In this paper, an effective co-located MIMO radar target detection algorithm is proposed based on modified smoothed- $l_0$ norm sparse recovery, by exploiting the 2D block sparsity of the range-Doppler profiles of targets corresponding to different transmit-receive pairs. The proposed method can enhance the target detection performance in co-located MIMO radar system, especially for those weak targets which may be overwhelmed by high-level sidelobes of strong targets and clutters, without sacrificing computational efficiency. With a well-designed regularization approach and an adaptive regularization parameter update technique, the proposed method is also robust in noisy environment. Simulation and experimental results validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.