ECE Graduate Seminar
<p> </p> <p> You are cordially invited to attend the following seminar:</p> <p> </p> <p> Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering</p> <p> Old Dominion University</p> <p> GRADUATE SEMINAR</p> <p> </p> <p> Waveform Design for Radar Systems</p> <p> by</p> <p> Ms. Amanda Daniel</p> <p> Ph.D. Candidate</p> <p> Electrical and Computer Engineering</p> <p> Old Dominion University</p> <p> </p> <p> Friday, April 11, 2014</p> <p> 3:00 p.m. KH 224</p> <p> Host: Dr. Popescu</p> <p> </p> <p> Radar systems have been in use for many decades to sense the surrounding environment and determine information about targets of interest, with military and civilian applications including air traffic control, environmental sensing, and surveillance. With the development of stealthier radar targets as well as the emergence of more highly cluttered environments, there is a need for more sophisticated radar systems that can provide more precise information about targets of interest while mitigating the effects of surrounding clutter. Since radar systems are now largely software-based, adaptive and cognitive radar systems have emerged in which transmission and reception schemes can be tailored to the target or environment as a means to improve system performance. Because the basic structure of a radar system exhibits many similarities to the structure of a communication system, it is possible to apply information theoretic techniques to waveform design.</p> <p> </p> <p> This presentation provides background on radar systems, introduces the radar detection and estimation problems, and discusses waveform design for multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radar systems. Similarities and differences between radar systems and communication systems are highlighted along with a discussion of how the similarities can be exploited to improve radar waveform design methods for target detection and estimation. Current and future work as well as preliminary results in these areas are included.</p> <p> </p> <p> Bio:</p> <p> Amanda Daniel received her BS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northeastern University in 2007 and her MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2009. Between 2009 and 2011 she worked at BAE Systems in Charleston, South Carolina.</p> <p> </p> <p> Currently she is pursuing the PhD degree at Old Dominion University and her research interests are in radar systems and waveform design for detection/estimation of multiple targets.</p> <p> </p>
Posted By: Linda Marshall
Date: Mon Apr 07 10:28:50 EDT 2014