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Assuming unknown knowledge of target impulse response (TIR), this paper develops robust design methods to optimize the transceiver for the detection of extended targets in the presence of signal-dependent interference. Two different transceiver design schemes comprising single filter and multiple filters methods are presented to handle the fact that the TIR of extended target is unknown at the transmit side. The lowest signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) is considered at the receiver side as the performance measure of the system. Two robust design problems are formulated as max-min optimization problems to robustify the system SINR with respect to the unknown TIR. The former is solved using an iterative optimization process alternating between two sequential semi-definite programming (SDP) problems; the latter is solved employing an iterative optimization procedure alternating between a convex and a generalized fractional programming problems. Finally, several numerical examples highlight that the proposed design schemes have better robustness compared to several counterparts which are presented in open literature.

We propose a novel robust design method to jointly optimize the radar transmit code and receive filter, exploiting the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) at the receiver end as design figure of merit. We confer robustness to our method against uncertainties on the target impulse response (TIR) using a worst-case optimization approach. Precisely, we model the uncertainty set as a finite collection of TIRs, obtained sampling the actual TIR at some aspect angles. We further enforce a peak-to-average power ratio (PAR) constraint to the transmit code, which is very important for radar applications, where the transmitter operates close to saturation. The design problem is tackled using a sequential optimization procedure alternating between two semi-definite programming (SDP) problems, followed by randomization steps. Our numerical results highlight the robustness and applicability of the proposed method.