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Digital Signal Processing

Volume 16, Issue 5, September 2006, Pages 479-487
Digital Signal Processing

Optimal target tracking with restless bandits

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Abstract

This paper examines the problem of adaptive beam scheduling to minimise target tracking error with a phased array radar. It is shown that this can be posed in a framework that is similar to a particular type of dynamic programming problem known as the restless bandit problem. We will show that when the problem is put in this framework it has an indexable solution under certain circumstances.

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Dr. B.F. La Scala is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research areas are radars, target tracking and data fusion, and sensor management. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems for papers on target tracking and multisensor systems. She is also the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the ISIF Journal of Advances in Information Fusion.

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Dr. B.F. La Scala is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research areas are radars, target tracking and data fusion, and sensor management. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems for papers on target tracking and multisensor systems. She is also the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the ISIF Journal of Advances in Information Fusion.

Professor B. Moran is a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia. He also serves as a consultant to the Australian Department of Defence through the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, and as a consultant to Prometheus Inc., USA. His main interest areas are signal processing, particularly with radar applications, waveform design and radar theory, and sensor management. He also works in various areas of mathematics, including harmonic analysis and number theory.

Extended version of a paper submitted to the Defence Applications of Signal Processing Workshop, Utah, USA, 2004.

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