Adaptive Filtering, Identification, and Control with Applications to Adaptive Optics

摘要

The primary objectives of this project were to develop new real-time algorithms for adaptive filtering and system identification, and to apply these algorithms in new methods for optics and target tracking. Mathematical analysis of the performance of the adaptive algorithms in the presence or unmodeled noise also was an important part of the project. The research was aimed at supporting research at the Air Force Research Laboratory on directed energy weapons. Additional application areas included optical communication systems, blind identification and deconvolution, active control of noise and vibration, and detection of damage in elastic structures. The primary application has been control of laser beams, with the objective of developing adaptive control algorithms that yield higher performance than existing methods for beam steering and adaptive optics.