This invention discloses a monostatic symmetric nested array
MIMO system and a near-field positioning method, belonging to the field of monostatic
MIMO near-field
positioning technology. This invention can effectively improve the positioning performance during near-field
estimation. The monostatic symmetric nested array
MIMO system proposed in this invention has a symmetrically distributed transmit and receive arrays. Compared to other symmetric
MIMO systems, its differential array is a positionally continuous array with more
degrees of freedom. With the same physical
array aperture, fewer physical array elements are actually used, reducing costs. The near-field positioning method proposed in this invention calculates the fourth-order statistics of the
signal and quantizes them to obtain a virtual differential array of the differential array, achieving accurate near-field positioning of sparse MIMO structure arrays. Furthermore, it can be extended to more sparse MIMO
symmetric systems.