Optimal Cognitive Beamforming for Target Tracking in MIMO Radar/Sonar

In this paper, a cognitive beamforming method for target tracking by multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar or sonar is proposed. In this method, at each step, the transmit beampattern is sequentially determined based on history observations. The conditional Bayesian Cramér-Rao bound (BCRB) for one-step prediction of the state-vector in target tracking problem was used as the optimization cri...