Maximin Joint Design of Transmit Waveform and Receive Filter Bank for MIMO-STAP Radar Under Target Uncertainties

This letter deals with the joint design of transmit waveform and receive filter bank for airborne multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar under the target uncertainties. Assuming that the spatial angle and the Doppler frequency of the target are unknown, we formulate the maximin joint design problem by maximizing the worst-case signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) under the energy constraint, flexible modulus constraint, and similarity constraint on the transmit waveform. To tackle this problem, we develop a computationally efficient algorithm based on iterative feasible point pursuit successive convex approximation (FPP-SCA). Numerical results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed algorithm.