Acquisition of Millimeter-Wave Platform for Joint Communication-Radar Signal Design with Applications to Connected Artificial Intelligence
Abstract
United States Army personnel and assets deployed in contested ground and multi-domain environments have maintained maximum operational superiority and warfighting advantage in all recent times. Operations in contested spectral environments are heavily resource-constrained and compete with adversaries and unknown networks. Modern sensing systems typically include multiple networked sensors with communication capabilities, therefore, radio technologies that are capable of performing multiple tasks simultaneously and efficiently cooperate and share the spectrum are key to fully exploiting every potential opportunity to access the electromagnetic spectrum. This spectral sharing may take the form of avoidance, opportunistic use, or full multiple-use codesign. This is not limited to single-use communications, but includes joint communications, radar, as well as positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) and sensing systems. In this proposal, Florida Atlantic University (FAU) describes its plan to acquire reconfigurable computing hardware, highfrequency data converters and radio equipment to build a millimeter-wave bi-directional multipleinput multiple-output (MIMO) platform for joint communication-radar signal design. Millimeterwave signals with multiple transmit and receive antennas are mainly associated with achieving high data rates for wireless communication but they also offer huge potential for radio-based positioning, which is a key element of highly adaptive and self-organizing networks of AI teams. The proposed platform will uniquely augment the capabilities of the team of investigators at FAUÕs Center for Connected Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence (CA-AI) and enable new DoD-related research opportunities, including: robust foolproof spectrum sensing via rapid highconfidence identification of faulty data; jointly optimized waveform co-design for communicationradar systems with multiple transceiver chains; protocol development for directional multi-function networks, among others. In addition the platform will be utilized as part of on-campus demonstrations to organized visits from local high-schools. We will disseminate research results at major scientific conferences and journals and premier magazines in the field. FAU, an USDOE Title III HSI-designated institution, is the most diverse public institution among FloridaÕs ten state universities. We will focus on recruitment and mentoring of students in core EE and CS research including women and minority students by leveraging FAUÕs Center for Center for Inclusion, Diversity Education, and Advocacy (IDEAs.) In addition to being available to colleagues and partners outside FAU, the platform will enable collaboration among PIs and other faculty members within the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering (I-SENSE.) Research results will be integrated into a number of undergraduate and graduate courses taught at FAU, such as Communication Systems, Engineering Design I & II, Smart Antennas and Information Theory.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jun 25, 2021
- Source ID
- W911NF2110185
Entities
People
- Dimitris A. Pados
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- Florida Atlantic University
- Office of the Secretary of Defense