no code implementations • 30 Nov 2023 • William W. Howard, Samuel R. Shebert, Anthony F. Martone, R. Michael Buehrer
Cognitive Radar Networks, which were popularized by Simon Haykin in 2006, have been proposed to address limitations with legacy radar installations.
no code implementations • 25 Oct 2023 • William W. Howard, Samuel R. Shebert, Benjamin H. Kirk, R. Michael Buehrer
The goal of the network is to learn over many target tracks both the characteristics of the targets as well as the optimal action choices for each type of target.
no code implementations • 30 Aug 2023 • R. Michael Buehrer, William W. Howard, Steven Ellingson
Second, since in many cases these weights require gains other than one, we develop a technique for determining unit-modulus weights so as to allow for surfaces which merely modify the phase of the scattered field, while substantially reducing the gain at arbitrary angles.
no code implementations • 24 Jul 2023 • William W. Howard, Anthony F. Martone, R. Michael Buehrer
We discuss centralized and distributed approaches to solving this problem, taking into account the quality of node observations, the maneuverability of each target, and a limit on the rate at which any node may provide updates to the FC.
no code implementations • 28 Jan 2023 • William W. Howard, R. Michael Buehrer
We show that in interference-limited spectrum, where the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio varies by channel and over time for a target with fixed radar cross section, a cognitive radar network is able to use information from the central coordinator in order to reduce the amount of time necessary to learn the optimal channel selection.
no code implementations • 1 Dec 2022 • Charles E. Thornton, William W. Howard, R. Michael Buehrer
This paper describes important considerations and challenges associated with online reinforcement-learning based waveform selection for target identification in frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) automotive radar systems.
no code implementations • 21 Nov 2022 • William W. Howard, Charles E. Thornton, R. Michael Buehrer
When each radar node in the network only is able to obtain noisy state measurements for a subset of the targets, the fusion center may not receive updates on every target during each update period.
no code implementations • 1 Sep 2022 • Jianyuan Yu, William W. Howard, Yue Xu, R. Michael Buehrer
Model order estimation (MOE) is often a pre-requisite for Direction of Arrival (DoA) estimation.
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2021 • William W. Howard, R. M. Buehrer, Anthony Martone
We model a radar network as an adversarial bandit problem, where the environment pre-selects reward sequences for each of several actions available to the network.
no code implementations • 18 Aug 2021 • William W. Howard, R. Michael Buehrer
The first method is iterative and uses only a series of observed bearings to multiple targets to establish clusters.
no code implementations • 12 Apr 2020 • Jianyuan Yu, William W. Howard, Daniel Tait, R. Michael Buehrer
A vector sensor, a type of sensor array with six collocated antennas to measure all electromagnetic field components of incident waves, has been shown to be advantageous in estimating the angle of arrival and polarization of the incident sources.