Advances in Waveform-Agile Sensing for Tracking

Sandeep P. Sira received the M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2007 from Arizona State University (ASU). In 2007, he was a post-doctoral research associate at ASU. He is currently with Zounds Inc., in Mesa, Arizona. His research interests include waveform-agile sensing, target tracking, audio signal processing, and detection and estimation theory. Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU). She is the co-Director of the Sensor, Signal and Information Processing (SenSIP) Center, and Associate Director of the Adaptive Intelligent Materials and Sys[1]tems (AIMS) Center at ASU. Her research interests are in the areas of Waveform-Agile Sensing, Time-Frequency Signal Processing, and Statistical Signal Processing. She is currently funded by an Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Multidisciplinary UniversityResearch Initiative (MURI) on Adaptive Waveform Design for Full Spectral Dominance, and she participated in the DARPA Waveform-Agile Sensing, program, where she worked on waveform selection algorithms for sensing in highly cluttered environments. Darryl Morrell is an associate professor of engineering at Arizona State University, where he is participating in the design and implementation of a multidisciplinary undergraduate engineer[1]ing program using innovative, research-based pedagogical and curricular approaches. His research interests include stochastic decision theory applied to sensor scheduling and information fusion as well as application of research-based pedagogy to engineering education.

• Waveform-Agile Target Tracking Application Formulation.- Dynamic Waveform Selection with Application to Narrowband and Wideband Environments.- Dynamic Waveform Selection for Tracking in Clutter.- Conclusions.- CRLB Evaluation for Gaussian Envelope GFM Chirp from the Ambiguity Function.- CRLB Evaluation from the Complex Envelope.