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PROFESSORS ARYE NEHORAI AND DANILO ERRICOLO RECEIVE MURI AWARD Professor Arye Nehorai and Professor Danilo Erricolo received a multimillion dollar MURI (Multi-University Research Initiative) award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a synergistic, multi-disciplinary, multi-university research program that will substantially increase both radar resolution, detection, and accuracy, as well as communication systems capacity. This research investigation, entitled "Adaptive Waveform Diversity for Full Spectral Dominance," will be led by the University of Illinois at Chicago in collaboration with five other funded institutions: Arizona State University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Purdue University, and the University of Maryland. Two independently funded collaborations are with Raytheon Missile Systems and the University of Melbourne, Australia. The project involves enabling research and technology that will be carried out by a team of eleven leading scientists and divided into the four following tasks: (1) a unified approach to waveform design; (2) environment and channel modeling; (3) optimization of waveform design; and (4) applications and validations. Experimental validations will be conducted inside an anechoic chamber and a radar test tower. Recent developments in flexible digital waveform modulator hardware have hastened the day when it will be practical to adjust the transmit waveform on a periodic basis, as often as pulse-by-pulse if required, for the best overall system performance in a dynamically changing scenario. Professor Nehorai competed with a total of 8 full proposals in his area of |
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