MTRI's engineers technical goal is to design waveforms for a semi-cooperative, distributed RADAR system.
Conditional joint optimization: Waveform design of adaptable RADAR, conditioned on the existence of non-cooperative RADARs.
Constrained joint optimization: Special case of conditional joint optimization where a cooperative network’s waveforms are designed subject to real-world limitations.
RADAR Network
![Diagram showing transmitted waveforms, received signals, and receiver output.](/mtri/research/project-areas/national-homeland-security/optimization-warp/images/block-diagram-orig.jpg)
Constrained Waveform Optimization Approach
![Flowchart of phase-only constraint.](/mtri/research/project-areas/national-homeland-security/optimization-warp/images/phase-only-constraint.png)
Conditional Waveform Optimization Approach
Use Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization to define the spectral support of the conditional subspace
- Incorporate this subspace into the interference term for the constrained waveform optimization approach