Scheduling of Multistatic Sonobuoy Fields Using Multi-Objective Optimization
Christopher Gilliam, Branko Ristic, Daniel Angley, Sofia Suvorova, Bill Moran, Fiona Fletcher, H. Gaetjens, Sergey Simakov
Abstract
Sonobuoy fields, comprising a network of transmitters and receivers, are commonly deployed to find and track underwater targets. For a given environment and sonobuoy field layout, the performance of such a field depends on the scheduling, that is, deciding which source should transmit, and which from a library of available waveforms should be transmitted at any given time. In this paper, we propose a novel scheduling framework based on multi-objective optimization. Specifically, we pose the two tasks of the sonobuoy field-tracking and searching-as separate, competing, objective functions. Using this framework, we propose a characterization of scheduling based on Pareto optimality. This characterization describes the trade-off between the search-track objectives and is demonstrated on realistic multistatic sonobuoy simulations.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{icassp2018_schedulingofmult,
title = {Scheduling of Multistatic Sonobuoy Fields Using Multi-Objective Optimization},
author = {Christopher Gilliam and Branko Ristic and Daniel Angley and Sofia Suvorova and Bill Moran and Fiona Fletcher and H. Gaetjens and Sergey Simakov},
booktitle = {ICASSP 2018},
year = {2018}
}