Collaborative transmit resource scheduling and waveform selection for target tracking in multistatic radar system

Abstract

Abstract This paper proposes a collaborative transmit resource scheduling and waveform selection (CTRSWS) strategy for target tracking in multistatic radar system which consists of one transmitter and an arbitrary number of receivers. The main mechanism of the proposed CTRSWS strategy is to exploit the optimisation technique to jointly optimise the illumination power, dwell time, waveform bandwidth, and pulse length under the constraints of several resource budgets and the predefined waveform library, aiming at improving the low probability of intercept (LPI) performance and target tracking accuracy of multistatic radar system simultaneously. The analytical expressions for the probability of intercept and the trace of the predicted error covariance matrix corresponding to the target state estimation are derived and adopted to evaluate the LPI performance and target tracking accuracy, respectively. Subsequently, the resulting non‐convex and non‐linear optimisation problem is resolved by an efficient and fast four‐stage solution methodology. Several numerical results are provided to verify the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed CTRSWS scheme in terms of the achievable LPI performance and target tracking accuracy of multistatic radar system.

Keywords

• concave programming
• covariance matrices
• nonlinear programming
• probability
• radar tracking
• state estimation