FRIDAY - European Microwave Week

Duration: 13:50 to 17:40 Room G105
W22 (EuRAD)
Cognitive Radar Resources Management
Organizers:
Peter Moo, DRDC, Canada
Frédéric Barbaresco, Thales Air Systems, France
William Dawber, Qinetiq, UK
Chris Baker, Ohio State University, USA
Alexander Charlish, FKIE, Germany
Abstract
Radar Sensors are now more and more integrated in complex
systems and information systems. This trend aims at implementing
more coherent, efficient, and reactive processes. Nevertheless,
their development involves suitable evolutions in radar resources
management concepts. On one hand, disparate data have to be
efficiently managed from the observation to the decision level,
taking into account all their specificities. On the other hand,
information has to be obtained through a dynamical process of
resource management, such that the whole system provides the
best fitting with needs, environment and context. Obviously system
design and control are major problems in term of autonomy of
radar sensors and interactions between them, and they need
individual and collective behavior optimization.
This workshop deals with Dynamic Multifunction and Multi-mission
Radar Resources Management (RRM), consisting in waveforms and
dwells space-time resources allocation and scheduling, for better
adaptation to the environment and to tactical situations/threats.
To optimize the Radar Time Budget, the RRM shares and allocates
resources between functions (Search, Confirmation, Active Track,
Re-Acquisition, NCTR…) taking into account simultaneously time
constraints and priority constraints to find the optimal use of radar
capability in an autonomous or collaborative way of functioning.
The purpose of the workshop is to build a prospective view
of this particularly large but emergent thematic, considering
methodological aspects as well as application potential for ground,
naval and airborne platforms.
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WORKSHOPS AND SHORT COURSES - FRIDAY
Programme
13:50–14:30 Cognitive & Dynamic Multi-Function /
Mission Radar Resources
Management
Frédéric Barbaresco, Thales Air Systems, France
14:30–15:10 Coordinated scheduling for
networked radars
Peter Moo, DRDC, Canada
15:10–15:30 Environmentally Aware Phased
Array Radar
William Dawber, Qinetiq, UK (1st Part)
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–16:20 Environmentally Aware Phased
Array Radar
William Dawber, Qinetiq, UK (2nd part)
16:20–17:00 Soft Decision Making for Radar
Resources Management
Chris Baker, Ohio State University, USA
17:00–17:40 Radar resources management using
economic paradigms in agent systems
Alexander Charlish, FKIE, Germany