Radar sensor networks for automatic target recognition with delay-doppler uncertainty

  • Authors:
  • Qilian Liang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX

  • Venue:
  • MILCOM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE conference on Military communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Automatic target recognition (ATR) in target search phase is very challenging because the target range and mobility are not yet perfectly known, which results in delay-doppler uncertainty. In this paper, we firstly perform some theoretical studies on radar sensor network (RSN) design based linear frequency modulation (LFM) waveform: (1) the conditions for waveform co-existence, (2) interferences among waveforms in RSN, (3) waveform diversity in RSN. Then we apply RSN to ATR with delay-doppler uncertainty and propose maximum-likekihood (ML) ATR algorithms for fluctuating target and nonfluctuating target. Simulation results show that our RSN vastly reduces the ATR error comparing to a single radar system in ATR with delaydoppler uncertainty.