AESA Fighter Radar Seminar
AESA Radar theory and operations
Learn from a world class engineer, with over five decades of Radar experience, to design an AESA Fighter Radar mode suite from the requirements up.
This Intense 40Hr Zoom seminar, which took over 11,000 man-hours to produce, concentrates on the most difficult, most important and least understood mode designs for an AESA Radar integrated in a weapons system operating in a hostile war-time environment.
Adaptive, "Optimal" Search and Track automatic waveform designer
"Optimal" 3DOF-Kalman and the alternative 6DOF-FIR estimator for Multi-Target Track
SAR and 3d SAR with image enhancements, for bombing and Automatic Target Recognition
Unique and challenging learning environment
Free of constrictive security measures: Based on unclassified and non-proprietary fundamental principles that don't change over time, open-source references, and the author's extensive practical experience.
Proven value: Presented over 17 times at Northrop Grumman to new hires and experienced engineers with advanced degrees, actively engaged in AESA Fighter Radar mode development.
Excellent artwork: Animations, Roll over acronyms, Computer aided scheduling, and Cross links to a unique and invaluable hands-on Electronic book.
Mature material: The seminar has matured steadily over 10 years based on extensive student comments and has been almost completely rewritten three times. The electronic book, especially the chapters on kinematics, linear estimation and matrix optimization are valuable assets in any AESA engineer's toolbox.
Rapid Prototyping: The Tools provided with the course to increase productivity in AESA mode design include:
1000 page interactive "Mathcad 15" electronic book on all class material.
Hundreds of user programmable procedures for solving difficult AESA problems.
CAD programmable "Excel" automatic waveform design tool - for optimizing search and track waveforms.
Extensive list of open-source references used in the development of the seminar.
Example .pdf version of Electronic Book
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Chp 15_MathcadTutorial.pdfInteractive Electronic Book
If you have Mathcad 15.0 M50 available in the software store you can view the 1000 page electronic book on all the class material as it was designed. All calculations are live and the reader can change parameters or insert new equations for rapid prototyping of modified designs. Check out the symbolic computation of the Kalman STM and Q matrix (Sec6.1) - very nice.
When Mathcad is not available the reader can view a .pdf version of the book and use standard pdf tools for search, print, copy, generative AI summaries of the content and more, which can provide advantages over a standard hard copy text book.
What the students say:
“The best class I have taken at Northrop.”
“The instructor knows his stuff.”
“Excellent artwork, technical material, references and real-life stories that re-enforce the concepts.”
"I love the stories."
"Here are fifty suggestions for improvement." - Implemented (the author)
What Northrop Grumman says:
They keep asking me back.