Chicago Section

IEEE SPS Chicago Chapter Seminar

Friday, December 9, 2022

Prof. Alessio Balleri

Reader in Radar Systems, Head of the RF Group,

Assistant Director of Research – Technology

Centre for Electronic Warfare, Information and Cyber (EWIC)

Cranfield University

Defence Academy of the United Kingdom

Time & Talk Location

11:00AM, SEO 1000

851 South Morgan Street, 10^th Floor, Chicago

Host: Prof. Mojtaba Soltanalian

Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Multistatic Radar Networks Based on a Staring Monostatic Radar and Dual-channel Receivers

Staring radars use a transmitting static wide-beam antenna and a directive digital array to form multiple simultaneous beams on receive. Because beams are static, the radar can employ long integration times that facilitate the detection of slow low-RCS targets, such as drones, which present a challenge to traditional air surveillance radar. Typical low altitude trajectories employed by drones often result in low-grazing angle multipath effects which are difficult to mitigate with a monostatic radar alone. The use of multiple spatially separated receivers cooperating with the staring transmitters in a multistatic network allows multi-perspective target acquisitions that can help mitigate multipath and ultimately enhance the detection and estimation of drones. This seminar covers the results of current research activities aiming at investigating and demonstrating how varying this type of network geometry affects the estimation performance of a targets position and velocity.

Bio:

Alessio Balleri received the Laurea degree in telecommunication engineering (summa cum laude) (five legal years) from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and electrical engineering from the University College London (UCL), London, U.K., in 2010. From February 2010 to March 2012, he was a Research Associate in radar systems with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, UCL. From June 2004 to December 2004, he was a Visiting Research Scholar with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago. He is currently a Reader in radar systems with Cranfield University, Shrivenham, U.K. His research interests include radar and sonar system design, biologically inspired radar and sonar systems, adaptive radar, radar and sonar target classification, target feature extraction, and modeling of radar clutter. Dr. Balleri Guest Coedited a special issue on “Biologically Inspired Radar and Sonar Systems” for the IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation in 2012 and a special issue on “Emerging Radar Techniques” for the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, in 2013. He was the Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for the IET International Radar Conference 2017, Belfast, U.K. and the Technical Co-Chair of the 2020 IEEE International Radar Conference, Washington, DC, USA. He is currently serving as the Special Issue editor for the IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation journal and he has recently been elected as a member of the IEEE AESS Radar System Panel.  

851 S Morgan St

CHICAGO, IL 60607