End-to-end Learning of Waveform Generation and Detection for Radar Systems

Wei Jiang, Alexander M. Haimovich, Osvaldo Simeone

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Abstract

An end-to-end learning approach is proposed for the joint design of transmitted waveform and detector in a radar system. Detector and transmitted waveform are trained alternately: For a fixed transmitted waveform, the detector is trained using supervised learning so as to approximate the Neyman-Pearson detector; and for a fixed detector, the transmitted waveform is trained using reinforcement learning based on feedback from the receiver. No prior knowledge is assumed about the target and clutter models. Both transmitter and receiver are implemented as feedforward neural networks. Numerical results show that the proposed end-to-end learning approach is able to obtain a more robust radar performance in clutter and colored noise of arbitrary probability density functions as compared to conventional methods, and to successfully adapt the transmitted waveform to environmental conditions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationConference Record - 53rd Asilomar Conference on Circuits, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2019
EditorsMichael B. Matthews
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1672-1676
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781728143002
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2019
Event53rd Asilomar Conference on Circuits, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2019 - Pacific Grove, United States
Duration: Nov 3 2019Nov 6 2019

Publication series

NameConference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
Volume2019-November
ISSN (Print)1058-6393

Conference

Conference53rd Asilomar Conference on Circuits, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPacific Grove
Period11/3/1911/6/19

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Networks and Communications

Keywords

  • Radar waveform design
  • neural network
  • radar detector design
  • reinforcement learning
  • supervised learning

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