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I. INTRODUCTION
Joint Detection Estimation
Problem of Monopulse Angle
Measurement
A multi-mode radar must be able to operate
in a tracking mode. The tracking algorithm needs
to locate the signal source (radar target) direction
more precisely than the detection process performed
with the sum beam alone which gives only a rough
estimate, and this has traditionally been achieved
by performing a monopulse estimation [11, 21].
Monopulse estimation has evolved from an intuitive
engineering technique based on the principle of
interferometry for angle estimation [11, 21] to a very
general principle for precisely estimating multiple
parameters by maximizing a generalized (sum) beam
output [16]. This maximization principle derives
from the maximum likelihood (ML) procedure and
estimates the unknown parameters Μ =( Μ 1 , Μ 2 , ::: )
of a single deterministic target (Swerling 0 radar
target [23]) from an array antenna output snapshot
[7, 13, 14, 16]
JÉROME GALY
LIRMM
France
ERIC CHAUMETTE
French Aerospace Lab
PASCAL LARZABAL, Member, IEEE
SATIE/CNRS
France
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Estimation of the direction of arrival (DOA) of a signal
source by means of a monopulse estimation scheme is one of
the oldest and most widely used high-precision techniques in
operational tracking systems. Although the statistical performance
of this estimation technique has been extensively investigated,
it has never been analyzed from the viewpoint of the joint
detection-estimation problem. As a consequence the historical
form of the (detector-angle estimator) solution has become the
usual form implemented in operational tracking systems and may
restrict their accessible performance. Indeed, the application of
the optimal detection theory reveals alternative (detector-angle
estimator) solutions providing other relevant trade-offs in
detection-estimation performances that are worth considering
to optimize the performance of the tracking system according
to the scenario. Both stochastic signal model (Rayleigh-type
signal source) and deterministic signal model (signal source
of unknown amplitude) have been investigated, leading to a
novel but equally simple (detector-angle estimator) solution
through which analytical statistical prediction has been derived.
Comparison of detection-estimation performances of new and
usual solutions is presented.
~z = ®~a ( Μ )+
¡!
n a represents the Gaussian receiver noise plus
external interference contribution, a ( Μ )represents
the one-way complex array antenna voltage pattern
depending on Μ ,and ® represents the complex
amplitude of the signal source (including power
budget equation, signal processing gains). The
maximization of the generalized beam output
can be efficiently solved [13, 14, 16] by a linear
approximation of the type
Μ =
¡!
Μ 0 + S (Re f~rg¡¹ )
0
@ ¡!
!
Μ 0 ) H ~z
!
d 2 (
!
Μ 0 ) H ~z
1
T
(1)
d 1 (
~r =
,
, :::
A
¡!
Μ 0 ) H ~z
!
Μ 0 ) H ~z
w (
w (
where
Manuscript received June 30, 2007; revised February 27, 2008,
August 21, 2008; released for publication November 15, 2008.
¡!
Μ 0 is an initial estimate of the desired
parameters,
2) S , ¹ are real correction quantities,
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¡!
Μ 0 ) H ~z ,
¡!
Μ 0 ) H ~z , :::g are,
Refereeing of this contribution was handled by M. Rangaswamy.
3) w (
Μ 0 ) H ~z and f !
d 1 (
!
d 2 (
This work was partially funded by the European Network of
excellence NEWCOM++ under the number 216715.
This was presented in part at the IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Montreal, Canada, April
2004 and at the European Signal Processing Conference, Vienna,
Austria, Sept. 2004.
!
Μ 0 ,and
respectively, the (generalized) sum beam at
a set of estimates of its derivatives
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Μ 0 )
1
H
~z , @w (
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Μ 0 )
2
H
=
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~z , :::
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Authors’ addresses: J. Galy, LIRMM (laboratoire d’Informatique,
de Robotique et de Micro-Electronique de Montpellier), 161 rue
ada 34392 Montpellier Cedex 5, France; E. Chaumette, ONERA,
DEMR, Chemin de la Huniere, Palaiseau Cedex, FR-91761, France,
E-mail: (eric.chaumette@orange.fr); P. Larzabal, SATIE/CNRS,
Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, 61 avenue du President
Wilson—94235 Cachan Cedex, France.
called (generalized) difference beams,
4) ~r is an estimator of the vector of the monopulse
ratios
0
@ ¡!
1
!
Μ 0 ) H a ( Μ )
¡!
d 2 (
!
Μ 0 ) H a ( Μ )
T
d 1 (
~r =
,
, :::
A
:
¡!
Μ 0 ) H a ( Μ )
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Μ 0 ) H a ( Μ )
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In tracking mode, the unknown parameters are
descriptors of the target direction, e.g., the azimuth
¡!
Μ 0 =( Μ 1 , Μ 2 ) T
is the antenna (sum) beam looked-direction. The
importance of formula (1) is not so much the linearity
but the explicit relationship derived in [14, 16]
between the correction values S , ¹ and arbitrary
sum and difference beams, particularly adaptive
beams synthesized to cancel the contribution of the
interferences while maintaining low sidelobe patterns
[16]. The monopulse technique can produce accurate
parameter estimates for a single target, but it does not
improve the resolution of multiple targets [16]. For
any estimator of type (1), the mean and variance are
given by
( Μ 1 ) and elevation ( Μ 2 ) angles, and
!
Μ 0 + S ( m Re f~rg ¡¹ )
C Μ = SC Re f~rg S T
(2)
Fig. 1. Beams pattern of monopulse rectangular reflector antenna
(collocated sensors paired in phase with uniform sum excitation
for sum beam and linear odd difference excitation for difference
beam, beamwidth at ¡ 3dB=1deg).
which means that, given the sum and difference beams
(hence S and ¹ , see [16]), the performance of the
generalized monopulse estimates only depends on the
performance of the estimation of ~r .
As a consequence, in a multi-mode radar using
monopulse calculation in its tracking mode, to cope
with time budget constraints (surveillance mode),
each tracking loop (one per track), once initialized,
is maintained by processing the minimum necessary
information, i.e., the monopulse sum and difference
beams only. At each loop the processing principle
consists of a detection step followed by a monopulse
angle estimation (1) that feeds the tracking filter
(Kalman filter) which performs the position prediction
for the next measurement [11]. So far, the detection
step has always been performed with the sum beam
only, since this usual processing is the generalized
likelihood ratio test (GLRT) for an array antenna,
provided the looked-direction is the true direction of
the signal source [10]. However, within a tracking
loop, the looked-direction is only expected to be close
enough to the true signal source direction in order
to ensure the detection and maintain the loop, which
generally means it is within the beamwidth at ¡ 3dB
of the sum beam. Moreover, in a receiver noise only
scenario, the usual shapes of a sum and a difference
beam look like the ones displayed in Fig. 1.
These usual shapes clearly suggest that, as the
predicted looked-direction moves away from the true
direction of the signal source, the usual detection
processing based on the sum beam only may not lead
to the optimal detection performance accessible with
the given set of tracking beams.
Therefore, we propose in this paper to revisit the
detection and estimation steps of a tracking system
using monopulse calculation from the viewpoint of
the joint detection estimation problem (also called
the composite hypothesis testing problem [10]) and to
explore the various trade-offs in detection-estimation
performance available.
Let us recall that the joint detection estimation
problem stems from the optimal detection theory,
which shows that optimal detection rules are a
function of the exact statistics of the observations
[10]. Therefore optimal detection rules are generally
not realizable since they almost always depend
at least on one of the unknown parameters. A
common approach to designing realizable tests is to
replace the unknown parameters with estimates, the
detection problem becoming a composite hypothesis
testing problem (CHTP)/joint detection estimation
problem [10]. Each pair (detector-estimator)
defines a particular trade-off in detection-estimation
performance. Although not necessarily optimal for
detection performance, the estimates are generally
chosen in the maximum likelihood (ML) sense,
thereby obtaining the GLRT (see Section III).
The application of the optimal detection theory
(see Section II) [10] to a sensor array consisting of the
monopulse beams reveals, at least in a receiver noise
only scenario, alternative (detector-estimator) solutions
(see Sections III—IV) providing other relevant
trade-offs in detection-estimation performances that
are worth considering to optimize the performance
of the tracking system according to the scenario.
The proposed approach is novel, since the open
literature on this subject reveals a separate analysis
of detection and estimation [1—3, 7—9, 11, 12, 15—16,
20—22, 24, 26]. The use of the difference beams
has always been limited to the angle estimation part
of the problem, which has been first addressed for
decoupled parameter estimates (azimuth or elevation)
and covered by theoretical work on the formulation of
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estimators of a single real monopulse ratio [12], then
of its statistical performance [8, 9]. The first analyses,
which included the usual sum beam detection test,
appeared as late as the 1990s [20, 24], as did their
extension to coupled parameter estimates (azimuth
and elevation) with correlated beams leading to
the generalized monopulse correction formula (1)
[13—16]. Even lately, authors [2, 3, 26] involved in
radar target tracking have introduced and characterized
an alternative statistical description of monopulse
parameters conditioned on the signal-to-noise ratio
(SNR) on the sum beam at each observation.
Due to the complexity of the analytical
computations (see Appendix, Subsection C), we have
restricted our analysis to the monopulse measurement
of a single angle by means of a two-beams array
(sum ( § ) and difference ( ¢ )), in the static situation
in which the signal source does not alter its relative
position with respect to the monopulse antenna during
I independent measurements at time t i , i2 [1, I ].
Therefore, in the following, the beams’ signal vector
consists of
Throughout the paper, for the sake of simplicity in
expressions,
1) most references to observation time t i , i2 [1, I ]
will be expressed implicitly by use of subscript i ,and
explicit dependence on Μ of g § , g ¢ , r , g , ::: will be
omitted;
2) § =( § 1 = § ( t 1 ), ::: , § I = § ( t I )) T , ¢ =( ¢ 1 =
¢ ( t 1 ), ::: , ¢ I = ¢ ( t I )) T , V =( § T , ¢ T ) T ;
3) R =1 =I
P
i =1 v ( t i ) v ( t i ) H =1 =I
P
I
i =1 v i v i ;
L ( m x , C x ) denotes a complex circular
Gaussian random vector of dimension L with mean
m x ,covariancematrix C x , and probability density
function (pdf)
p CN L ( x ; m x , C x )= e ¡ ( x¡m x ) H C ¡ 1
x ( x¡m x )
¼ L j C x
j :
II. OPTIMAL DETECTOR FOR MONOPULSE
ANTENNAS
Let us consider the detection problem related to
the observation model (3). Based on I independent
array snapshots v ( t 1 ), ::: , v ( t I ), we want to decide
whether to accept the null hypothesis (noise only)
H 0 , or to accept the alternate hypothesis (signal plus
noise) H 1 :
H 0 : v ( t )= n ( t ), H 1 : v ( t )= ® ( t ) g + n ( t ) : (4)
If no a priori probability ( P ( H 0 ), P ( H 1 )) of hypotheses
is available, then the Neyman-Pearson criterion is
often used for binary hypothesis testing [10, §3].
This process consists of searching for the subset of
observations D (detection event) which maximizes
the probability of detection P ( DjH 1 )( P D )foragiven
probability of false alarm P ( DjH 0 )( P FA ). The optimal
detector in the Neyman-Pearson sense is the likelihood
ratio test (LRT):
Μ
§ ( t )
¢ ( t )
Μ
g § ( Μ )
g ¢ ( Μ )
Μ
n § ( t )
n ¢ ( t )
v ( t )=
= ® ( t )
+
= ® ( t ) g ( Μ )+ n ( t )
( 3 )
n a ( t ) are the noise plus
external interference contribution at the beams’ output.
A remarkable feature of monopulse antennas
introduced by the present paper is that, in the
presence of a temporally and spatially white noise
n ( t )( C n = ¾ n I ), analytical expressions of the GLRT
and associated estimators, in particular that of the
monopulse ratio, can be derived for both deterministic
(Swerling 0 radar target [23]) and stochastic (Swerling
1 or Swerling 2 radar target [23]) signal models.
Moreover, we also show that both the GLRT and
monopulse ratio ML estimator (MLE) have identical
expressions for both signal models whether the
noise power ( ¾ n ) is an unknown parameter or not.
Unfortunately, the exact solution of the GLRT is
unpractical for establishing analytical results if I ¸
2. As a result, we develop two approximations of
the (detector, monopulse ratio estimator) pair (see
Section IV). The first one, called “Sum-Mosca,”
is the usual approximation. The second one,
called “Power-Mosca,” is a novel but equally
simple approximation that has been characterized
analytically (see Section V). Last, a comparison
of detection-estimation performance trade-offs of
new (“GLRT-MLE,” “Power-Mosca”) and usual
(“Sum-Mosca”) solutions is presented for a receiver
noise only scenario (see Section VI).
H 1
H 0 T:
In the problem at hand, the signal source does not
alter its relative position with respect to the array
during the I snapshots (static situation: g is constant)
and n ( t ) »CN
LRT:
p ( V j H 1 )
p ( VjH 0 )
2 (0, ¾ n I ). Therefore,
Y
I
p CN 2 ( v i ;0, ¾ n I )= e ¡ ( I=¾ n )Tr( R )
p ( VjH 0 )=
( ¼ ( ¾ n )) 2 I : (5)
i =1
A. Stochastic Signal Model
1 (0, ¾ ® ) independent
identically distributed (IID) and independent from the
noise; therefore,
Y
I
p CN 2 ( v i ;0, C v i )= e ¡I Tr( C ¡ 1 R )
p ( VjH 1 )=
( ¼ 2 j C j ) I
(6)
i =1
C = C v i = ¾ ® gg H + ¾ n I :
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4) x»CN
n a ( t ), n ¢ ( t )= d ( Μ 0 ) H !
where g § ( Μ )= w ( Μ 0 ) H a ( Μ ), g ¢ ( Μ )= d ( Μ 0 ) H a ( Μ )are
the amplitudes at angle Μ of the sum and difference
beams steered at the looked-direction, Μ 0 ,and n § ( t )=
w ( Μ 0 ) H ¡!
The amplitudes ® i are CN
Under these assumptions the LRT takes the form of
Therefore, a common approach to designing realizable
tests is to replace the unknown parameters by
estimates, the detection problem becoming a CHTP,
also called joint detection estimation problem [10, §6].
Although not necessarily optimal for detection
performance, the estimates are generally chosen in
the ML sense, thereby obtaining the GLRT. Let us
denote by ' j the unknown parameters vector under
hypothesis j . The GLRT for deciding whether to
accept H 0 or to accept H 1 is given equivalently by (12)
or (13):
LRT:
p ( VjH 0 ) = e ¡I Tr([ C ¡ 1 ¡ ( ¾ n I ) ¡ 1 ] R )
H 1
H 0
T 0
j C ( ¾ n I ) ¡ 1 j I
(7)
I
¯ ¯ ¯ ¯
¯ ¯ ¯ ¯
2 H 1
H 0
X
g H v i
kgk
,
T:
i =1
Then P FA and P D are given by (chi-square test):
Μ
T
¾ n
P FA = e ¡T=¾ n e 1
Μ
T
¾ n + ¾ ®
max ' 1
fp ( Vj ' 0 ) g = p ( V j ' 1 )
H 1
H 0 T (12)
P D = e ¡T= ( ¾ n + ¾ ® kgk 2 ) e 1
GLRT:
(8)
p ( Vj ' 0 )
kgk 2
max ' 0
X
x n
n ! :
f ln p ( Vj ' 0 ) g H H 0 ln T
(13)
where ' j stands for the MLE [10, §6] of the unknown
parameters under hypothesis j .
In the problem at hand, we not only search for
a realizable detection test, but we also search for
an estimator of the monopulse ratio r in order to
implement (1). Therefore, recasting (3) as
f ln p ( Vj ' 1 ) max
' 0
GLRT: max
' 1
e N ( x )=
n =0
B. Deterministic Signal Model
The amplitudes ® i are deterministic values which
a priori fluctuation law is unknown. Let
¾ ® = ® H ®
I
= 1
I
Ã
X
I
!
i
j 2
:
i =1
v i = ¯ i x + n i , ¯ i = ® i g §
x =(1, r ) T , r = g ¢
g §
Then,
(14)
p CN 2 ( v i ; ® i g , ¾ n I )= e ¡ ( I=¾ n )Tr( C )
Y
p ( VjH 1 )=
( ¼ ( ¾ n )) 2 I
i =1
(9)
allows us to derive a GLRT based on the MLE of r ,
the possible unknown parameters becoming fr , ¾ n , ¾ ¯
g
X
I
C = 1
I
[ v i
¡® i g ][ v i
¡® i g ] H :
for the stochastic signal model, and fr , ¾ n , ¯ =
( ¯ 1 , ::: , ¯ I ) T g for the deterministic signal model.
In practice the reception beams § and ¢ of a
monopulse antenna are paired in phase so as to obtain
a real monopulse ratio. Thus, initially, Mosca [12]
has investigated the formulation of estimators of a
real monopulse ratio. Nevertheless, Asseo in [1] has
shown that it was worth considering the monopulse
ratio as a complex value where the real part supplies
the angular measurement, and the imaginary part
provides a simple detection test for the simultaneous
presence of several signal sources, i.e., for the validity
of the angular measurement [1, 9, 11, 20, 24]. In this
case, Im frg6 =0 although Im frg =0 in the case of a
single signal source. We follow Asseo’s approach
hereinafter and consider a complex monopulse ratio.
A remarkable feature of monopulse antennas is
that, in the presence of a temporally and spatially
white noise n ( t ), analytical expressions of the GLRT
and associated estimators, in particular that of the
monopulse ratio, can be derived for both deterministic
and stochastic signal models. Indeed, almost always,
one must resort to numerical maximization methods to
assess some of the unknown parameter estimators [25,
§8], of which the simplest implementation is a discrete
search on a fixed set of parameters possible values
i =1
Under these assumptions the LRT takes the form of
LRT:
p ( VjH 0 ) = e ¡ ( I=¾ n )Tr( C ¡ R ) H H 0
T 0
n
h P
io
(10)
Re
g H
I
i =1 ® ¤
i v i
H 1
H 0
,
r
T:
¾ n
2 [ ®
kgk 2 ]
Then P FA and P D are given by (real Gaussian law)
P FA = 1 ¡ erf( T )
2
³
p
´
1 ¡ erf
2 ®
kgk 2
(11)
P D =
2
Z
erf( x )= p
x
e
¡t 2
dt:
¼
0
III. GLRT FOR MONOPULSE ANTENNAS
As shown in the previous section, LRTs are
generally not realizable since they almost always
depend at least on one of the unknown parameters.
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fp ( Vj ' 1 ) g
N
I
p ( V j H 1 )
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(joint detection and estimation algorithm). Moreover,
GLRT derivations (see Appendix, Subsections A
and B for details) show that both the GLRT and
monopulse ratio MLE have identical expressions for
both signal models. The final form of GLRT (13)
only depends on whether the noise power ( ¾ n )isan
unknown parameter (15) or not (16), whereas the
MLE of r remains unchanged (17):
q
Tr( R ) 2 ¡ 4 j R j¼k§k 2 ¡k¢k 2 +2 H ¢j 2 =k§k 2 and
CHTP:
k§k 2 H H 0 T , ˆ r = § H ¢
k§k 2 : (19)
The real part (Re f ˆ rg ) of this approximated form of
ˆ r ML was introduced by Mosca [12] as the solution
of “the problem of estimation of angle of arrival in
amplitude comparison monopulse radars,” but with
no reference to the associated detection test. A more
global approach is the theoretical approach disclosed
above. It leads to a symmetrical form (relative to
¢ and § ) of the CHTP and therefore suggests an
approximation based on a symmetrical criterion, such
as the correlation of the two channels under H 1 with
¾ ® large. In this case H ¢j 2 =k§k 2 k¢k 2 ¼ 1. Then,
q
Tr( R )+
Tr( R ) 2 ¡ 4 j R j
2 ¾ n
GLRT:
H 1
H 0 T (15)
q
Tr( R )+
Tr( R ) 2 ¡ 4 j R j
2 ¾ n
GLRT:
H 1
H 0
T (16)
q
ˆ r ML = Tr( R )+
Tr( R ) 2 ¡ 4 j R 2 k§k 2
2 ¢ H §
q
Tr( R ) 2 ¡ 4 j R Tr( R ) ¡ 2 j R j= Tr( R )and
: (17)
Form (15) of GLRT is a constant false alarm rate
(CFAR) detector [10] which assesses the noise power
( ¾ n ) under H 0 and H 1 u sing the small est eigenvalue
of R : ¾ n = 2 (Tr( R ) ¡
CHTP: Tr( R )= k§k 2 + k¢k 2 H H 0 T
(20)
q
k¢k 4 + H ¢j 2
¢ H § ( k§k 2 + k¢k 2 ) :
Tr( R ) 2 ¡ 4 j R j ). Whatever
the observation model considered, the performance
( P D versus P FA ) of CFAR detectors is poor for small
number of snapshots [10]. This is the reason why ¾ n
estimation is always performed at a different stage of
the processing, generally at the output of the matched
filter, where a large amount of samples is available.
Therefore, hereinafter, it is assumed that ¾ n can be
estimated precisely enough to be a known parameter
of observation model (14) leading to form (16) of
GLRT.
ˆ r 1 =
Under this form the CHTP becomes a simple
quadratic detector based on the use of the energy
available on the two reception channels. For
the stochastic observation model, the detection
performance ( P D versus P FA ) of this type of detector is
well known (4 I order chi-square tests) and is close to
that of the optimal detector (2 I order chi-square tests)
(8). However, the approximated form ˆ r 1 of ˆ r ML (17)
obtained is not a great deal simpler. It is simplified
when k§k 2 Àk¢k 2 . We then have again the form (19)
of ˆ r ML and (20) becomes
IV. PRACTICAL GLRT APPROXIMATIONS
k§k 2 + k¢k 2 H H 0 T , ˆ r = § H ¢
Except for case I =1,where
CHTP:
k§k 2 : (21)
j¢j 2 + j§j 2 H H 0 T , ˆ r ML = ¢
CHTP:
§
(18)
We designate hereinafter the various solutions
(16)—(17), (19), (20), and (21) of the CHTP
as GLRT-MLE, Sum-Mosca, Power-E1, and
Power-Mosca, respectively. First, a large number of
Monte-Carlo simulations not fully disclosed in the
present paper (see Figs. 5—9) and 6—11 for examples),
have shown that solution Power-Mosca (21) offers
better performances than solution Power-E1 (20) over
the complete mainlobe of beam § :same P D but lower
root mean square error (RMSE). Second, an analytical
formulation of the performance of the Power-Mosca
(21) solution has been derived and is introduced in the
next section.
the exact solution of the GLRT (16)—(17) is not
practical for establishing analytical results. Although
the computing power of today’s computers allows
a precise study of its performance through a
Monte-Carlo type simulation with a large number
of draws (see Section VI), it is always interesting
to be able to establish analytical results based on
approximated solutions which may be used as
calibration tools for this type of simulation (number
of draws necessary for a reliable estimation).
The usual approximation consists in restricting
the use of the difference beam ¢ to the computation
of ˆ r ML only, where the detection is achieved using
the sum beam § only. Under this assumption, the
samples which pass the detection test and participate
in the estimation process mostly belong to the sum
beam width and verify k§k 2 Àk¢k 2 .Inthiscase,
V. STATISTICAL PREDICTION
Assessing the statistical performances of the
CHTP requires a joint analysis of the performance
of the detector and the estimators of the unknown
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