Expert system control for airborne radar surveillance
ROBERT MCKENZIE, David Mullens · 1987
This paper describes the application of an expert system to the control of a phased array radar. The goal of the research was to investigate operational radar control strategies which demonstrate gain in radar performance. A testbed, consisting of a prototype expert system controller and a phased array radar simulator, was built to conduct experimental runs of surveillance scenarios. The testbed was incrementally developed as a hybrid between conventional algorithmic programs and an expert system, taking advantage of the best features of each. We focus on a description of the testbed and a discussion of advanced A1 development environments and expert system runtime performance.