A strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm (SPEA) for multi-mission radar waveform optimization

An Evolutionary Algorithm Approach to Simultaneous Multi-Mission Radar Waveform Design

“…There has been some previous research in the area of multi-mode and multimission radar waveform design and diversity. In [11], Mendelson [14]. Objective functions were used to evaluate mission performance.…”

“…Incremental increases in performance with respect to the defined mission objectives were shown for the waveforms designed by SPEA with respect to randomly generated waveforms. This thesis builds on the work presented in [14].…”

The Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm 2 (SPEA2) applied to simultaneous multi- mission waveform design

“…These objectives are functions of radar parameters such as pulse repetition frequency (prf), center frequency, bandwidth, etc., as well as spatial parameters such as antenna beam width, azimuth look angle, elevation look angle, etc. This objective function representation of a radar multi-mission scenario was proposed originally at RADAR 2002 [3] and elaborated on in more detail at the First International Waveform Diversity & Design Conference in 2004 [4]. Some of the details presented at the 2004 Waveform Diversity conference are repeated in this paper to provide clarity of the proposed technique.…”