A KASSPER Real-Time Signal Processor Testbed

Abstract

The Knowledge Aided Sensor Signal Processing and Expert Reasoning (KASSPER) Program 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 Processor Testbed and its associated Signal Processing Architecture is a prototype radar system scheduling and signal processing framework that has been developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory (MIT LL). This talk will discuss the design of the testbed; its architecture; the testbed's software to hardware mapping; knowledge aided processing algorithms; as well as computational performance data that have been collected for important knowledge-aided processing kernels. A number of topics (such as the look-ahead scheduler) are currently areas of ongoing research. An overview of the potential benefits, as well as a vision of how the architecture will incorporate knowledge aided scheduling, will be presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA433164

Entities

People

  • Glenn Schrader

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Computer Architecture
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Data Processing
  • Data Sets
  • Detectors
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Ground Moving Target Indicators
  • Information Processing
  • Moving Target Indicator Radar
  • Moving Targets
  • Prototypes
  • Radar
  • Signal Processing
  • Time Signals
  • United States
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.