IEEE South Australia Section

Dear IEEE members and guests, The next IEEE Control, Aerospace and Electronic Systems (CAES) seminar will be on Monday, 23rd September, 2024 at 5:30 pm (Adelaide time). The speakers are Nicole Perry and David Brown from the Southwest Research Institute, USA, They will be presenting two seminars on recent work in Electronic Warfare. This will be a hybrid meeting and we would love to see people in person at the: University of Adelaide, Engineering North N158 Chapman Lecture Theatre If you are joining on zoom, please aim to join the meeting beforehand, so we can start on time. https://adelaide.zoom.us/j/82909761162?pwd=Ac8e3qAqSXDq7POmfoTX3aKObSYS0c.1 Password: 125634 Also, please check out the IEEE SA Section website: (https://enotice.mmsend.com/link.cfm?r=wh8D9f-42CWIJh06mx-qQA~~&pe=-HDfrq8Vbb4_-Jj4uF_B8E3h10YvsgsXyh_J2YfEkioDgP39UQoH6t8IZks-gnWjrgKGf7EEeovxfcJGJP_QAA~~&t=hb3RX0xYwAFA7SXzAEcPYQ~~) Regards Luke Rosenberg IEEE SA CAES Chapter Nicole Perry Title: SPARTA - Advanced Test System for Electronic Warfare Biography Ms. Nicole Perry is a Senior Research Engineer with the Advanced Electronic Warfare group at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). With SwRI, she performs development of requirements, design, build, and testing of engineering hardware, software, and firmware for legacy Electronic Warfare weapon systems and advanced technology EW platforms. She has been heavily involved with testing Electronic Attack techniques using SwRI’s SPARTA software and with a SwRI-led project using open architecture technology in a scalable, platform agnostic EW system. Ms. Perry has coauthored a paper for the IEEE AUTOTESTCON 2023 titled An Effective Approach to Evaluating Electronic Warfare Systems (A. Davis and N. Perry, "An Effective Approach to Evaluating Electronic Warfare Systems," 2023 IEEE AUTOTESTCON, National Harbor, MD, USA, 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/AUTOTESTCON47464.2023.10296200.) to discuss methods of advanced waveform analysis to characterize parameters of EW systems. Abstract Electromagnetic warfare (EW) systems require thorough and accurate test and evaluation (T&E) leading to complex, expensive, and timely test phases. As complexity of both the EW operation environment and EW capabilities grow, the need for improved test resources and better evaluation has increased. Electronic Attack (EA), one aspect of EW, requires evaluation at a high resolution and fidelity that is increasingly difficult with the use of conventional commercial off the shelf (COTS) test equipment. SPARTA, or System Performance and Real-time Analysis, is an advanced tool that provides post-processing analysis during testing of Electronic Attack (EA) techniques. It describes the behavior of the EW system under test (SUT) in both time-domain and frequency-domain. Recorded signal of interest (SOI) related to radar emitters and EW SUT can be analyzed at a high-level or as very detailed pulses and samples. Graphical video illustrating activity of SOI and EW SUT can be synchronized to range and velocity graphs, providing more in-depth visual data. For testing requiring a congested, noisy environment, this software can separate SOI and false target responses and analyze pulse-to-pulse and intrapulse characteristics. Designed to meet complex testing needs of EW, SPARTA can reduce lifecycle costs and improve testing accuracy during acquisition and sustainment phases. David Brown Title: Cognitive Detection and Tracking of Modern Radar Systems Biography David Brown leads cognitive EW research and development for the Advanced Electronic Warfare group at Southwest Research Institute. His research interests are centered on applied cognitive EW, including methodologies to push AI/ML algorithms to the sensor edge. Prior to SwRI, he held a variety of EW related R&D positions and was an adjunct professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In addition to engineering, David gained practical experience in EW in flight as a B-1B WSO. David received undergraduate/graduate training in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech as well as Master of Arts and Master of Divinity from Liberty University. David is a Distinguished Graduate of the Joint Electronic Warfare Officer School and is the recipient of the AOC EW Pioneer Award and RF Award. He served as Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Low Latency Subcommittee co-chair, focusing on Open EW specific concerns. David is an IEEE Systems Council Distinguished Lecturer and active in the AOC. David is active in neuromorphic research as a Principal Investigator in the Intel Neuromorphic Research Community. Abstract This presentation will explore the limitations of traditional receiver approaches in complex RF environments. Modern approaches incorporating low-level AI/ML techniques to mitigate information entropy will be introduced. To achieve this, a feature rich symbolic representation of the emitter is developed using a mixture of real-time traditional and AI/ML based signal processing. The information rich data is processed by downstream algorithms to reduce complexity in the sample environment. The session will close with an outline of where further research is needed. Room: N158 Chapman Lecture Theatre, Bldg: Engineering North, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/433587