Monitoring the Plane with Rotating Radars

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2018

2005

This paper describes an algorithm that has been used for the autonomous control of multiple UAVs tasked with the high level objective of locating a radar subject to a number of real world constraints. The distributed, fully autonomous, cooperative control of the multiple UAV system was executed using sensor input from a heterogenous network of miniaturised Electronic Surveillance (ES) payloads. An ES sensor onboard one UAV detected a radar target and cross-cued ES receivers onboard two other UAVs. Based on the information shared between these UAVs the target radar was approximately located by each UAV Once the UAVs had coarsely located the target they autonomously, dynamically, and continuously adapted their flight trajectories to progressively improve the accuracy with which they were able to co-operatively locate the radar target. The UAVs were able to accurately locate the radar while simultaneously avoiding no-fly zones, one another and remaining within communication range.

…, 2009

2008 IEEE Radar Conference, 2008

Advances in Sensing with Security …, 2006

International Journal of Engineering, 2021

This paper presents different methods used to allow a number of radar sensors mounted in a room to derive their relative spatial position as well as the floor plan of the room itself by relying on measurements of the distance of a person (walking around the perimeter of the room) from each sensor, at various time instants.

Foundations and Applications of …, 2008

2019 12th German Microwave Conference (GeMiC), 2019

2006

Abstract: This project had a start date of 15 May 2004 and an end date of 15 May 2006. During this time, we made good progress toward our goals in radar imaging, distributed detection, and sensor scheduling for target tracking. In the area of radar imaging, we have established a duality between radar imaging and time-varying spectrum analysis that is bringing insight into waveform design. For distributed detection we have proved an information-theoretic theorem that establishes the rate at which the ROC curve of a dense ...