Chapter 13 Electromagnetic Signal Processing A case study

This chapter summarizes some of the work in the area of electromagnetic field-based state estimation, tracking, and adaptive control. The subject of the merging of electromagnetic field computation with signal processing techniques is of vast importance, and holds much promise for aerospace and medical electronics. It proposes a system for runway plane based measurements of the approach angle of an aircraft, the relative position of the aircraft plane with respect to the runway plane, and the flight path. The chapter presents an inverse electromagnetic solver for ultra high frequency (UHF) radar. It provides a review of the sensing and tracking system proposed, a non-optimal formulation of aircraft plane measurement using the scattered electromagnetic fields captured by radar, an optimal Kalman estimator and tracking algorithm for the electromagnetic field based system, and a further application of the state estimator and tracking system for adaptive control of a vibrating body using a static electric field.