Advanced Mathematics for Optimizing Missile Seeker Signal Processing

摘要

It is convenient to separate our research program into two periods of performance. The first period of performance corresponds to the Base Program and covers the time period of July 1, 1998 to March 31, 2001. The second period of performance corresponds to the Option Program and covers the time period of April 1, 2001 to December 31, 2001. The objective of the Base Program was a real time demonstration of a ten-fold performance improvement in RF Adaptive Array Processing (AAP) using advanced mathematical techniques. A secondary objective was to demonstrate a performance improvement over conventional AAP by achieving an SNR gain for a target in interference. The objective of the Option Program was to apply some of the general mathematical algorithms for target detection and classification developed under the DARPA DSO Applied and Computational Mathematics Program (ACMP) to a specific sensor modality.