Biography:Marc Lesturgie obtained the Engineering degree in 1985 from ENSAE in France (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace), and a Master degree in Electronic & Microwave from University of Toulouse in 1986. In 2005 he obtained a Research Directorship Habilitation from the University of Paris VI. He joined the French Aerospace Lab (ONERA) in 1985 and worked in a wide range of new radar concepts, covering bistatic, multistatic and distributed radars. From 1996 to 2000 he is the head of "New radar concepts" team in ONERA. Deputy Director at the Electromagnetics and Radar Department of ONERA (since 2007), Director of SONDRA, (a joint laboratory established between France and Singapore), Marc Lesturgie has been also an Adjunct Principle Research Scientist with the Temasek Laboratories, NTU, between 2005 and 2014. Chairman of the SEE/Committee 23 (radio-location and navigation) between 2000 and 2006, he has organised several International conferences, acted as the Technical Chairman of the International Conference on Radar Systems in 2004 and 2009 and was the General Chair of the Radar 2014 international conference in Lille (France). Fellow and Emeritus member of SEE, Senior Member of IEEE Marc Lesturgie is author of over 60 journal and conference papers, several patents and over 40 technical reports, and lectures regularly on radar topics in French or overseas Universities.
Title:MIMO Radar : from principles to practical and useful applications
Abstract:MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) radar refers to the use of multiple transmitters and receivers, for sensing the environment and the targets present in this environment. Basically MIMO radar uses multiple antennas that transmit correlated or uncorrelated waveforms. For the last ten years MIMO has led to extensive research and publications, both in communications and Radar domains. Why such interest for MIMO in radar? Beside the prolific amount of publications, how to assess the interest of MIMO to overcome the current limitations of conventional radar?
The short course attempts to answer these questions, as well as to provide the tools to understand the link between theoretical considerations and radar system design. After a summary of the state of art – we may notice that MIMO was invented more than 25 years ago – the course will provide the fundamentals of MIMO radar, how to define a MIMO radar configuration, introduce the signal model, waveform design, signal processing, detection and localization. A particular emphasis will be put on the coherent MIMO in conjunction with the unique properties of the MIMO steering vector. A large part of the course will be focused on practical applications, realization of MIMO, including GMTI applications and French and Chinese experiences on low frequency radar for air and maritime surveillance.

Syllabus

Introduction
State of art, MIMO system in navigation, communication and radar domain;
Flashback to the first MIMO radar, RIAS (SIAR), its advantages and drawbacks.

MIMO configurations
Definition of MIMO; MIMO and radar diversity;
Coherent, statistical and hybrid MIMO;
Examples of application
benefit of MIMO over conventional radar systems.

Signal model and performances
Power budget of MIMO system, examples of codes,
Fast or slow time coding, which code for which application?
MIMO and antenna coupling in physical arrays
Properties of the transmitted pattern

MIMO waveform design for radar applications
Waveform schemes: fast time CDMA, FDMA, TDMA, DDMA,..
Examples of codes: sub-carriers, OFDM codes, PN (pseudo-noise), Hadamard codes

Signal processing
MIMO signal chain; mathematic formulation
Estimation of the steering vector
Impact of the Doppler shift on signal processing
Detection scheme (Gaussian / non Gaussian noise)

Properties of the MIMO steering vector
Virtual array / Combined transmit and receive array directivity
MIMO and high resolution techniques

Relevant applications of MIMO to radar
Bistatic / Multistatic GMTI/STAP
Low frequency HF radar
Other applications (including real systems and experimental results)