  In colocated compressive sensing MIMO radar, the measurement matrix is
specified by antenna placement. To guarantee an acceptable recovery
performance, this measurement matrix should satisfy certain properties, e.g., a
small coherence. Prior work in the literature often employs randomized
placement algorithms which optimize the prior distribution of antenna
locations. The performance of these algorithms is suboptimal, as they can be
easily enhanced via expurgation. In this paper, we suggest an iterative antenna
placement algorithm which determines the antenna locations deterministically.
The proposed algorithm locates jointly the antenna elements on the transmit and
receive arrays, such that the coherence of the resulting measurement matrix is
minimized. Numerical simulations demonstrate that the proposed algorithm
outperforms significantly the benchmark, even after expurgation.
