US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

Kelly D Sherbondy

Anthony Frank Martone

Kenneth Irving Ranney

Gregory James Mazzaro

Kyle Alexander Gallagher

DaHan Liao

Traian V Dogaru

A method and system for providing a cooperative spectrum sharing model that jointly optimizes primary user equipment parameters for improved frequency agility and performance while mitigating mutual interference between the primary user equipment and secondary user equipment. Spectrum sensing is implemented to form a power spectral estimate of the electromagnetic environment (EME) and apply multi-objective optimization to adjust the operational parameters of the primary user equipment to mitigate interference.

Method and system for optimizing transceiver spectrum sharing

A method and apparatus for detecting an object comprising a radio frequency transmitter for transmitting a radio frequency signal towards an object; an acoustic signal transmitter for transmitting an acoustic signal capable of causing intermittent contact of conductive and/or semi-conductive junctions of the object; and a radio frequency receiver for receiving the radio frequency signal after the radio frequency signal is reflected from the object, where the received radio frequency signal has been altered by the intermittent contact of conductive and/or semi-conductive junctions of the object.

Method and apparatus for detecting objects using a combination of radio and acoustic signals

A spectrum sensing radar system including a spectrum power sensing module configured to sense electromagnetic signal powers in a plurality of sub-frequencies and generate a sensed power set including a plurality of sensed electromagnetic signal powers corresponding to each of the plurality of sub-frequencies; a multi-objective function module configured to receive the sensed power set and calculate a first objective function for each of the plurality of sub-frequencies, wherein the first objective function includes a power function divided by an empirical measure of interference of the sensed power set to form a signal plus noise objective function for a sub-frequency of the plurality of sub-frequencies, and wherein the power function further includes a peak transmit power of the radar system multiplied by a gain of an antenna of the radar system, multiplied by a wavelength of a carrier of the sub-frequency.

Spectrum sensing for advanced radar performance

A method for optimizing bandwidth selection of a radar transmission in a frequency bandwidth in which the frequency bandwidth is divided into a plurality of sub-bands having a plurality of different bandwidths. The energy level is measured for each sub-band and a range resolution is also determined for each sub-band. Thereafter, a sub-band is selected in the frequency range where the signal to interference plus noise ratio plus the range resolution is maximum. Thereafter, a radar transmission is transmitted in the selected sub-band with a bandwidth corresponding to the bandwidth of the selected sub-band.

Method and apparatus for bandwidth selection for radar transmission

A radar assembly for linear and nonlinear radar transmission and reception comprising a signal generator; at least one filter operatively connected to the signal generator; a transmitter operatively connected to the at least one filter for transmitting radar signals; a receiver operative to receiving received signals comprising linear and nonlinear responses from the reflected transmitted signals; the receiver comprising a first channel for processing the linear response of the received signal; a second channel for the processing the nonlinear response of the received signal; at least one switch operative to select one of the first or second channels; at least one high pass filter operatively connected to the second channel to attenuate the linear response; at least one amplifier to amplify the nonlinear response; and at least one display operatively connected to both the first and second channels for displaying both linear and nonlinear responses.

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Burke, VA, United States of America

Kelly D Sherbondy