Processing requirements for multisensor low-cost brilliant munitions

Author

Klein, Lawrence A. ; Kassis, Suhail Y.

Author_Institution

Hughes Aircraft Co., Fullerton, CA, USA

Volume

29

Issue

4

fYear

1993

fDate

10/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1084

Lastpage

1094

Abstract

A generic mission for an autonomous brilliant munition is presented and used to identify the functions that embedded signal processors must perform. Based on these functions and other operational factors such as weather, countermeasures, larger search areas, reduced false alarm rates, and increased munition maneuverability, the processing loads in bits/second messages/second, operations/second, and instructions/second are derived. An evaluation of general implementation issues such as the requirements for data fusion, distributed and parallel processing architectures, reliable software, and low-cost hardware is presented

Keywords

intelligent sensors; military computing; military systems; parallel architectures; sensor fusion; signal processing; autonomous brilliant munition; countermeasures; data fusion; distributed architecture; embedded signal processors; false alarm rates; low-cost hardware; multisensor low-cost brilliant munitions; munition maneuverability; parallel processing architectures; reliable software; weather; Aircraft; Hardware; Intelligent sensors; Radar tracking; Sensor fusion; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Signal processing; Signal processing algorithms; Target tracking; Weapons;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9251

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/7.259513

Filename

259513