Enhanced ISAC Framework for Moving Target Assisted by Beyond-Diagonal RIS: Accurate Localization and Efficient Communication

This paper proposes an innovative Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) framework for moving target detection by leveraging beyond-diagonal RIS (BD-RIS) to improve beamforming performance and control wireless propagation. In this framework, we first design a novel target-tracking method for moving target detection based on Extended Kalman Filtering (EKF) with accurate cooperative localization. In addition, to further improve the sensing accuracy, we minimize the joint posterior Cramér-Rao bound (PCRB) for both target position and velocity constrained by the communication performance requirements, and maintain the orthogonality and symmetry constraints of BD-RIS. Given the non-convex nature of the problem, we break it into two subproblems, which are solved iteratively using the proposed alternating optimization (AO) algorithm. The AO algorithm incorporates a semidefinite relaxation (SDR) method for beamforming and a penalty dual decomposition (PDD) approach for BD-RIS optimization. The simulation results demonstrate that: (1) the proposed prediction method accurately tracks the position and velocity of the target in dynamic environments; (2) the proposed AO algorithm is efficient and effective, exhibiting fast convergence and achieving a performance improvement of 6.7 % compared to conventional diagonal RIS.