Transmit and Receive Array Structure Design of Two-Dimensional hybrid Phased-MIMO Radar based on Nested Array

In order to reduce the loss of Degree of Freedom (DOF) brought by the transmit subarray splitting of two-dimensional hybrid phased-MIMO radar, this paper presents a design method of transmitting and receiving array based on nested array structure. Firstly, a two-dimensional hybrid phased-MIMO radar transmitting array based on one-dimensional nested array is presented. On this basis, the receiving end is set as a nested array, and finally a virtual array and difference coarray are formed to expand the number of virtual array elements. The expansion increases the DOF of arrays while preserving the advantages of hybrid phased-MIMO radars. Simulation experiments show that compared with the traditional and coprime hybrid phased-MIMO radar, the proposed method can effectively improve the array DOF and Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation accuracy.