Control radar sensors

Keywords Radar sensor scheduling waveform beam-shape control detection tracking revisit time myopic non-myopic. 

Rohling, Hermann Meinecke, Marc-Michael Klotz, Michael Mende, Ralph Experiences with an Experimental Car controlled by a 11 GHz Radar Sensor, International Radar Symposium, IRS98, Miinchen, 1998. 

Marine pollution by oil spills or harmful chemicals is still one of the major environmental problems to be faced. Besides the accidental releases of pollutants the main source is assumed from the controlled release by ship traffic and oil production platforms. Since accidents or violations of regulations can never be completely excluded, precautions and instruments are needed to detect and combat maritime pollutions and a crucial element of this framework is airborne surveillance. Like no other system, airborne pollution control is capable a) to detect possible oil spills by radar sensors,... 

A starting point for these new sensor functions is the adaptive cmise control system (ACC), which has already been introduced to the market. ACC systems monitor objects that are far in front of a vehicle and their relative speeds by either RF-radar (at 11 GHz) or laser-radar sensors. Due to the current high price of this system, the market will possibly be restricted mainly to luxury cars in the next few years. Volumes are expected to grow from several hundred thousand units in 2002 to a market of more than two million systems worldwide in 2005 [6]. 

The controller must be designed to respond appropriately to the arrival of any possible (i.e., detectable by the sensors) input at any time as well as the lack of an expected input over a given time period. Humans are better (and more flexible) than automated controllers at this task. Often automation is not designed to handle input arriving unexpectedly, for example, a target detection report from a radar that was previously sent a message to shut down. 

Avionics and Navigation. Condensed from the term aviation electronics, the term avionics has come to include the generation of intelligent software systems and sensors to control unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which may operate autonomously. Avionics also deals with various subsystems such as radar and communications, as well as navigation equipment, and is closely linked to the disciplines of flight dynamics, controls, and navigation. 

The MID is the sensor in an Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) system. The ACC position sensor assists in propulsion-unit control. It is definitive in terms of the quality of the radar signal shaped by the rotation of a metallic drum. The drum has a defined surface structure and deflects the radar beam as a function of position. 

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