Enhancement of Doppler Unambiguity for Chirp-Sequence Modulated TDM-MIMO Radars

Current automotive radar sensors enhance the angular resolution using a multiple-input multiple-output approach. The often applied time-division multiplexing scheme has the drawback of a reduced unambiguous Doppler velocity proportional to the number of transmitters. In this paper, a signal processing scheme is proposed to regain the same unambiguous Doppler as in the single-input multiple-output case with only one transmit antenna. Simulation and measurement results are shown to prove that the signal processing leads to an enhanced unambiguous Doppler velocity estimation.