Abstract: Antenna deployment for a distributed multi-input multi-output( MIMO) radar under the situation of multiple surveillance regions is studied. This paper puts forward an antenna deployment algorithm with controllable performance preference to solve the problem. Firstly, analyze the performance index function to evaluate the performance and establish the optimization mathematical model. Secondly, a dynamic reference point based particle swarm optimization( PSO) algorithm is put forward and the effectiveness of the algorithm is validated by simulation on ZDT series benchmarks, and its advantages over the traditional static reference point based PSO algorithm are quantitatively evaluated. Then, the dynamic reference point based PSO algorithm is used to optimize the MIMO radar antenna deployment model, and obtain antenna deployment schemes with controllable performance preference. Finally, the effectiveness of the algorithm is verified by simulation under the real scene for MIMO radar antenna deployment.