Hierarchical fully adaptive radar

Abstract

By emulating the cognitive perception-action cycle believed to be at the core of animal cognition, cognitive radars promise to improve radar performance over standard systems. The fully adaptive radar (FAR) framework provides a generalised approach to implementing a single cognitive perception-action cycle for radar systems, but complex adaptive problems necessitate the interaction of multiple perception-action cycles. This study describes the general form of the hierarchical FAR (HFAR) framework. The HFAR framework is applied to a single-target tracking, sensor fusion problem, and real-time experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed architecture for handling problems of varying scales in a consistent, adaptive fashion.