Coordinate descent for cognitve radar adaptation

By monitoring surroundings and adapting system parameters, cognitive radar has been shown to outperform traditional feed-forward radar systems. This paper builds upon the fully adaptive radar (FAR) framework for cognition. A coordinate descent (CD) algorithm is used with the FAR framework to adapt two radar parameters while tracking a single target. Simulated and experimental results are used to demonstrate how CD outperforms the sequential optimizations previously used with the FAR framework. Additional optimizations not previously used with the FAR framework are included for further comparisons.