An Approximately Efficient Estimator for Moving Target Localization in Distributed MIMO Radar Systems in Presence of Sensor Location Errors

In this paper, a novel algebraic closed-form method is proposed to estimate the position and velocity of a moving target in distributed multiple-input multiple-output radar systems with erroneous sensor locations by utilizing time delay and Doppler shift measurements. Unlike the existing methods that introduce nuisance parameters to build the pseudo-linear equations, the proposed method uses the singular value decomposition approach to establish new linear equations with regard to the target location with no nuisance parameters, and then derives a weighted least-squares (WLS) solution. To further improve the localization accuracy, the solution is refined through estimating the error by another WLS estimator. Based on the theoretical derivation and numerical simulations, the proposed estimator is demonstrated to be approximately unbiased and can attain the CRLB under small noise conditions. Moreover, the simulation results show that the proposed method achieves better target location accuracy than the state-of-the-art algorithms.