Kirubarajan, Thia (McMaster University)

Purpose

Tracking the states of mobile objects (e.g., ground vehicles, ships, aircraft, people) has many applications in communications, law enforcement, defense and biomedical engineering. A wide variety of sensors (e.g., radar, video, sonar, infrared), which may be stationary or mounted on mobile platforms (e.g., aircraft, satellites, ships, cars), are available to generate measurements that are in turn used to estimate the unknown states of mobile objects. With the recent advances in sensor, computer hardware and software technologies, it is possible to adaptively modify the processing, operational modality and configuration of sensors in real time in response to the ever-changing environment. For example, with an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, one can adaptively change waveforms, sampling time and sensing mode in real time. The objective of adaptation is to provide rapid response capability or agility._x000D_