IEEE AESS Distinguished Lecturer Programme - Talk on 'Cognitive Radar' by Prof Maria Sabrina Greco
Talk on 'Cognitive Radar' as part of the IEEE AESS Distinguished Lecturer Programme by Prof Maria Sabrina Greco. The event is free, and if you intend to attend the event in person, please register as the venue has limited seating capacity.
Abstract of the talk.
Over the past fifteen years, “cognition” has emerged as an enabling technology for incorporating learning and adaptivity on both transmit and receive to optimize or make more robust the radar performance in dynamic environments. The term ‘cognitive radar’ was coined in 2006, but the foundations of the cognitive systems date back several decades to research on knowledge-aided signal processing, and adaptive radar design. The main element of cognitive radar systems is the ‘perception-action cycle’, that is the feedback mechanism between receiver and transmitter that allows the radar system to learn information about a target and its environment and adapt its transmissions so as to optimize one or more missions, according to a desired goal. But a truly cognitive radar should not be only able to adapt on the fly its transmission waveforms and parameters based on internal fixed rules and on what learned about the environment, but it should also be able to optimize these rules learning with time from its mistakes, as some biological system does. And this is still a big challenge for radar experts.
This talk will provide an overview of the main concept, of methods for modeling cognitive processes in a radar system and of some application example. Some insights into future directions of research will be provided as concluding remarks.
Bio of the speaker.
Maria S. Greco graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1993 and received the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 1998, from University of Pisa, Italy. From December 1997 to May 1998 she joined the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, USA as a visiting research scholar where she carried on research activity in the field of radar detection in non-Gaussian background. In 1993 she joined the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Pisa, where she is Associate Professor since December 2011. She’s IEEE fellow since January 2011 and she was co-recipient of the 2001 IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society’s Barry Carlton Award for Best Paper and recipient of the 2008 Fred Nathanson Young Engineer of the Year award for contributions to signal processing, estimation, and detection theory. She's IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer for the years 2014-15. She has been general-chair, technical chair and organizing committee member of many conferences (EUSIPCO2006, WDD2007, RadCon2008, CAMSAP2009, CIP2010, CAMSAP2011, SAM2014, ICASSP2014). She was guest co-editor of the special issue of the Journal of the IEEE Signal Processing Society on Special Topics in Signal Processing on "Adaptive Waveform Design for Agile Sensing and Communication," published in June 2007 and s lead guest editor of the special issue of International Journal of Navigation and Observation on” Modelling and Processing of Radar Signals for Earth Observation published in August 2008. She’s Associate Editor of IET Proceedings – Sonar, Radar and Navigation since 2009, of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2009-2013), Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine since 2011, member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Advances in Signal Processing (JASP) since 2008, member of the IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) and chair of the EDU Subcommittee (2009-2014), and member of the Signal Array Processing (SAM) Technical Committees (2010-2015). She's also member of the IEEE AESS Radar Panel and of IEEE AESS Board of Governors (2012-2014). Her general interests are in the areas of statistical signal processing, estimation and detection theory. In particular, her research interests include radar clutter models, spectral analysis, coherent and incoherent detection in non-Gaussian clutter, CFAR techniques, radar waveform diversity and bistatic/multistatic radars. She co-authored three book chapters, more than 150 journal and conference papers.
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- Date: 27 Jun 2023
- Time: 03:00 PM to 05:00 PM
- All times are (UTC+02:00) Amsterdam
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- Landbergstraat 15
- TU Delft Campus
- Delft, Zuid-Holland
- Netherlands 2628CE
- Building: Industrial Design Faculty
- Room Number: Hall O - Hans Dirken
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- Starts 21 March 2023 06:00 PM
- Ends 27 June 2023 10:00 AM
- All times are (UTC+02:00) Amsterdam
- No Admission Charge