Autonomous Negotiating Teams (ANTS) Adaptive Resource Management for Electronic Warfare

摘要

The Autonomous Negotiating Teams (ANTS) program objective is to develop and demonstrate a Dynamic Scan Scheduler (DSS). Under the ANTS program, BAE built a testbed for DSS development and provided electronic warfare domain- related information to Northeastern University (NEU) and SRI. Both NEU and SRI then developed DSS approaches. These approaches were compared to the Fixed Scan Scheduler (FSS) using the testbed. Metrics relating to mission success were used to show the benefits of the DSS over an FSS. Under the ANTS Challenge Problem, BAE had the task to provide a hardware/software testbed to the other ANTS investigators. Since the ANTS program addresses 'time critical resource management of distributed resources', the testbed had to involve distributed hardware that requires coordination using limited bandwidth communication. To accomplish this, a three-beam CW doppler radar sensor was built and the objective was to use four (or more) of these 'sensor nodes' to detect and track a moving target. Under this Challenge Problem task, BAE designed and built several testbed sets and provided them to the other ANTS investigators. Software that supports the testbed was also provided and a test benchmark was conducted using four nodes to demonstrate tracking. (6 tables, 26 figures).