# IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

## Issue 4 • Aug. 2018

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Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): C2
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• ### Optimal Tracking Guidance for Aeroassisted Spacecraft Reconnaissance Mission Based on Receding Horizon Control

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1575 - 1588
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This paper focuses on the application of model predictive control (MPC) for the spacecraft trajectory tracking problems. The motivation of the use of MPC, also known as receding horizon control, relies on its ability in dealing with control, state, and path constraints that naturally arise in practical trajectory planning problems. Two different MPC schemes are constructed to solve the reconnaissa... View full abstract»

• ### Mixed Mode Radar Coincidence Imaging With Hybrid Excitation Radar Array

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1589 - 1604
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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A novel mixed mode radar coincidence imaging (MMRCI) system, which combines the coherent radar detection and incoherent radar coincidence imaging function during the radar coincidence imaging (RCI) process, is presented in this paper. The target location function of the MMRCI system gives the target position information synchronously with imaging tests, and this makes the MMRCI work independently ... View full abstract»

• ### Disturbance-Observer-Based Robust Relative Pose Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous and Proximity Operations Under Input Saturation

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1605 - 1617
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This paper investigates the robust relative pose control for spacecraft rendezvous and proximity operations subject to input saturation, kinematic couplings, parametric uncertainties, and unknown external disturbances. Relative rotational and relative translational nonlinear system models are first derived, and relative attitude and relative position controllers are then proposed, respectively. Th... View full abstract»

• ### Overbounding Risk for Quadratic Monitors With Arbitrary Noise Distributions

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1618 - 1627
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This paper derives equations to bound missed-detection and false-alarm probabilities for a quadratic monitor subject to vector noise with an uncertain, non-Gaussian probability density function (PDF). The bounding equation offers utility for the verification of safety-of-life navigation systems, in terms of both robustness and computational efficiency. Robustness is achieved in that the noise PDF ... View full abstract»

• ### On Channel Sharing Policies in LEO Mobile Satellite Systems

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1628 - 1640
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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We consider a low earth orbit (LEO) mobile satellite system with “satellite-fixed” cells that accommodates new and handover calls of different service-classes. We provide an analytical framework for the efficient calculation of call blocking and handover failure probabilities under two channel sharing policies, namely the fixed channel reservation and the threshold call admission policies. Simulat... View full abstract»

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1641 - 1663
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The Radon–Fourier transform (RFT) with a long coherent integration time has recently been proposed for detecting a moving target with an across range cell (ARC) effect. However, without effective clutter suppression, clutter will also be integrated via the RFT, which may affect weak target detection. Based on the maximal signal-to-clutter-plus-noise ratio (SCNR) criteria, a novel adaptive RFT (ARF... View full abstract»

• ### Divisible Nonlinear Load Distribution on Heterogeneous Single-Level Trees

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1664 - 1678
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This work studies the divisible nonlinear load distribution problem on heterogeneous single-level tree networks with a collective communication model. The goal is to find a feasible distribution that minimizes the parallel processing time. The classical model of nonlinear computational loads omits many processing steps, and yields only an approximate solution to distribute fractional loads. This w... View full abstract»

• ### Performance Improvement of Time-Balance Radar Schedulers Through Decision Policies

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1679 - 1691
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The resource management of a phase array system capable of multiple target tracking and surveillance is critical for the realization of its full potential. This paper aims to improve the performance of an existing method, time-balance (TB) scheduling, by establishing an analogy with a well-known stochastic control problem, the machine replacement problem. With the suggested policy, the scheduler c... View full abstract»

• ### On the Mitigation of Ionospheric Scintillation in Advanced GNSS Receivers

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1692 - 1708
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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Ionospheric scintillation is one of the major threats and most challenging propagation scenarios affecting Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and related applications. The fact that this phenomenon causes severe degradations only in equatorial and high latitude regions has led to very few contributions dealing with the fundamental scintillation mitigation problem, being of paramount import... View full abstract»

• ### Deep convolutional autoencoder for radar-based classification of similar aided and unaided human activities

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1709 - 1723
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Radar-based activity recognition is a problem that has been of great interest due to applications such as border control and security, pedestrian identification for automotive safety, and remote health monitoring. This paper seeks to show the efficacy of micro-Doppler analysis to distinguish even those gaits whose micro-Doppler signatures are not visually distinguishable. Moreover, a three-layer, ... View full abstract»

• ### Automatic Data-Driven Frequency-Warped Cepstral Feature Design for Micro-Doppler Classification

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1724 - 1738
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Micro-Doppler signature analysis and speech processing share a common approach as both rely on the extraction of features from the signal's time-frequency distribution for classification. As a result, features, such as the mel-frequency cepstrum coefficients (MFCCs), which have shown success in speech processing, have been proposed for use in micro-Doppler classification. MFCCs were originally des... View full abstract»

• ### Robust Nonlinear Disturbance Observer Based Adaptive Guidance Law Against Uncertainties in Missile Dynamics and Target Maneuver

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1739 - 1749
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The proposed robust nonlinear disturbance observer based adaptive guidance method considers the nonlinear coupled missile dynamics and rapidly maneuvering target. It also includes unavailable information such as high-order line-of-sight rates and target acceleration as time-varying parametric uncertainties and nonparametric disturbances. An integrated guidance and control model, a robust nonlinear... View full abstract»

• ### Curvature Constrained Cubic Spline Impact Angle Guidance for Intercepting Stationary Targets

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1750 - 1766
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In this paper, a cubic spline guidance law is proposed for intercepting a stationary target at a desired impact angle in surface-to-surface engagement scenarios. An inverse method is used, which represents the altitude as a cubic polynomial of the downrange. The paper addresses many shortcomings of earlier work in this area. In particular, an explicit guidance expression is derived, which makes th... View full abstract»

• ### A Restricted Bayes Approach to Joint Detection and Estimation Under Prior Uncertainty

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1767 - 1782
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The problem of joint detection and estimation under prior uncertainty is considered within the framework of restricted Bayes theory, which covers the classical Bayes and minimax frameworks as special cases. A linear combination of the average estimation risk with respect to some guessed prior probability and the maximum conditional estimation risk is minimized for generic convex estimation cost fu... View full abstract»

• ### Combating Radar Pulse Jamming Using Clipping-Based Noncoherent Pulse Integration

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1783 - 1789
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A novel pulse integration has been put forward in which the radar receiver, before combining envelope detector outputs in all pulses, first clips them to a suitable level to suppress excessive energy inflicted by a jammer. Mathematical expressions for various decision metrics relevant to this scheme are derived. Using these metrics it is shown that the proposed scheme, when combined with frequency... View full abstract»

• ### Estimation of Higher Order Polynomial Phase Signals in an Impulsive Noise

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1790 - 1798
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Parametric estimation of polynomial phase signals (PPSs) corrupted by an impulsive noise has been considered. The interpolation in joint-variable domain has been combined with the hybrid cubic phase function—high-order ambiguity function-based estimator to address this issue. Technique for estimating the percentage of impulses and threshold selection is also proposed. In addition, we propose the r... View full abstract»

• ### Performances Analysis of GNSS NLOS Bias Correction in Urban Environment Using a Three-Dimensional City Model and GNSS Simulator

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1799 - 1814
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The well-known conventional least squares (LS) and extended Kalman filter (EKF) are ones of the most widely used algorithms in science and particularly in localization with global navigation satellites systems (GNSS) measurements. However, these estimators are not optimal when the GNSS measurements become contaminated by nonGaussian errors including multipath (MP) and nonline-of-sight (NLOS) biase... View full abstract»

• ### Secure Distributed Estimation Over Wireless Sensor Networks Under Attacks

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1815 - 1831
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The problem of distributed estimation over wireless sensor networks in an adversarial environment with the presence of attacks on sensed and communicated information is considered. To tackle with this problem, a secure diffusion least-mean squares (S-dLMS) algorithm is proposed. The proposed S-dLMS can be considered as a hybrid system, which consists of a noncooperative LMS (nc-LMS) subsystem and ... View full abstract»

• ### A Modular Electrical Power System Architecture for Small Spacecraft

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1832 - 1849
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An electrical power system for low-Earth-orbit satellites, which can be reused for a variety of mission requirements with minimal redesign, is proposed. The goals of the proposed power system are achieved by modularizing the subsystems of a small spacecraft and designing them to allow any number of each module to be connected simultaneously. The modularized subsystems include solar energy generati... View full abstract»

• ### Knowledge-Aided Bayesian Space-Time Adaptive Processing

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1850 - 1861
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Ground moving target indicator (GMTI) radar processing attempts to distinguish between radar returns emanating from moving targets and stationary ground clutter. The task is confounded by the relative motion between the radar platform and the scene, as well as by the strength of clutter returns. Techniques such as space-time adaptive processing require an unknown interference covariance describing... View full abstract»

• ### Decreased Probability of Error in Template-Matching Classification Using Aspect-Diverse Bistatic SAR

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1862 - 1870
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We extend the concept of monostatic aspect diversity for improved automatic target recognition (ATR) to a bistatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) platform. We derive the probability of error with respect to the number of aspects used for a simple two-target template-matching classification system. The validity of the error prediction is confirmed using simulated bistatic SAR images. Our results de... View full abstract»

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1871 - 1882
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This paper considers the robust transmit–receive design for the detection of a moving point-like target embedded in signal-dependent clutter. In particular, we focus on the phase-only waveforms, sharing either the continuous or the finite alphabet phases and present iterative sequential optimization (ISO) algorithms to sequentially improve the worst-case signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SI... View full abstract»

• ### Poisson Multi-Bernoulli Mixture Filter: Direct Derivation and Implementation

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):1883 - 1901
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We provide a derivation of the Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture (PMBM) filter for multitarget tracking with the standard point target measurements without using probability generating functionals or functional derivatives. We also establish the connection with the$\delta$-generalized labeled multi-Bernoulli ( View full abstract»

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IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems focuses on the organization, design, development, integration, and operation of complex systems for space, air, ocean, or ground environment.  These systems include, but are not limited to, navigation, avionics, spacecraft, aerospace power, radar, sonar, telemetry, defense, transportation, automated testing, and command and control.

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Brigham Young University