Multistatic Radar Deployment within A Non-Connected Region

In this paper, an optimal multistatic radar deployment problem is studied under the assumption of the non-connected deployment region. By dividing the non-connected deployment region as an union of multiple connected subregions, the deployment problem can be modeled as a mix-integer nonlinear programming problem (MINP). The optimization variables of this deployment problem consist of selection of subregion and location optimization within every subregion. To solved this deployment problem, we first construct the mathematical optimization model, whose optimization objectives include the effective coverage and distribution uniformity of radar. Then, to alleviate the shortage of solving MINP in the conventional method, a pertinent multi-objective particle swarm optimization (MOPSO) variant for MINP is developed by modifying the dynamics of the particle motion for MOPSO. Finally, numerical results are provided to verify the validity of the proposed algorithm.