Study of two ANN digital implementations of a radar detector candidate to an on-board satellite experiment

Raoul Velazco (1) , Christophe Godin (1) , P. Cheynet (1) , S. Torres-Alegre (1) , D. Andina (1) , Mirta Gordon (1)

1 TIMA - Techniques de l'Informatique et de la Microélectronique pour l'Architecture des systèmes intégrés

The Microelectronics and Photonics Testbed (MPTB) is a scientific satellite carrying twenty-four experiments on-board in a high radiation orbit since November 1997. The first objective of this paper is to summarize one year flight results, telemetered from one of its experiments, a digital "neural board" programmed to perform texture analysis by means of an artificial neural network (ANN). One of the attractive features of MPTB neural board is its possibility of re-programming from the earth. The second objective of this paper is to present two new ANN architectures, devoted to radar or sonar detection, intended to be telecommanded on the MPTB neural board. Their characteristics (performances and potential robustness with respect to parameter deviations due to the interaction with charged particles) are compared in order to predict their behaviour under radiation.

Mots clés: ANN-architectures; sonar-detection; ANN-digital-implementations; radar-detector-candidate; on-board-satellite-experiment; Microelectronics-and-Photonics-Testbed; MPTB-; high-radiation-orbit; digital-neural-board; texture-analysis; artificial-neural-network; re-programming

Domaines: Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique

Raoul Velazco, Christophe Godin, P. Cheynet, S. Torres-Alegre, D. Andina, et al.. Study of two ANN digital implementations of a radar detector candidate to an on-board satellite experiment. 1999, pp.615-624. ⟨hal-00008233⟩