The knowledge aided sensor signal processing and expert reasoning (KASSPER) real-time signal processing architecture [radar signal processing]

Author

Schrader, Glenn E.

Author_Institution

Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

26-29 April 2004

Firstpage

394

Lastpage

397

Abstract

The KASSPER project is a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program which has the goal of improving the performance of ground moving target indicator (GMTI) radar systems by incorporating external sources of knowledge into the signal processing chain. The KASSPER real-time signal processing architecture is a radar system scheduling and signal processing framework that is being developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory (MIT LL). This paper discusses the design of the architecture, knowledge handling issues. resource scheduling issues, the current state of the prototype implementation of the framework, and the current state of the project´s real-time processor testbed.

Keywords

expert systems; radar clutter; radar signal processing; real-time systems; scheduling; target tracking; GMTI radar systems; KASSPER real-time signal processing architecture; expert reasoning; external knowledge sources; ground moving target indicator; heterogeneous clutter environment; knowledge aided sensor signal processing; knowledge handling; radar signal processing; radar system resource scheduling; real-time signal processing architecture; Computer architecture; Laboratories; Processor scheduling; Prototypes; Radar signal processing; Real time systems; Scheduling algorithm; Signal processing; Signal processing algorithms; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8234-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NRC.2004.1316456

Filename

1316456