REAL TIME IMPLEMENTATION OF MONOPULSE TRACKING ALGORITHM FOR AIRBORNE RADAR

A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF Master of Technology In Advanced Communication Systems By Kokane Sachin Ratnakar Roll No: EC 084209 Under the esteemed guidance of Dr. N.V.S.N. SARMA Professor Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering National Institute of Technology Warangal 506021 Andhra Pradesh, India June 2010

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering National Institute of Technology Warangal - 506021

CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the dissertation titled REAL TIME IMPLEMENTATION OF MONOPULSE TRACKING ALGORITHM FOR AIRBORNE RADAR is a bonafide work carried out by Mr. Kokane Sachin Ratnakar (Roll No: EC 084209), in partial fulfillment for the award of Master of Technology in Advanced Communication Systems, and is submitted to the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Warangal. This dissertation was not submitted earlier to any other University or Institute for the award of the degree.

Internal Guide Dr. N.V.S.N. Sarma Professor, Department of ECE, N.I.T, Warangal.

Head of the Department Dr. C.B. Rama Rao Head of the Department, Department of ECE, N.I.T, Warangal.

Acknowledgement
First and foremost, I would like to express my deep and sincere gratitude to my project guide, Dr. N.V.S.N. SARMA, Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, for his supervision, guidance, suggestions, and invaluable encouragement throughout the development of this thesis. I am very much indebted to him for suggesting this topic and helping me at every stage for its successful completion. I also wish to express my deep sense of gratitude to M.L. Shetty, AGM, B. Sundara Raju, Technical Manager and K. Prasanth, Technical Officer, SED Division, ECIL, Hyderabad for their invaluable guidance. Their constant encouragement throughout the project motivated me to enhance my understanding in achieving the goal. I wish to express my warm and sincere thanks to Dr. C.B. Rama Rao, Head, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, for his timely help in providing all the facilities throughout the course. I wish to thank all the staff members in the department for their kind cooperation and support given throughout my project work. I am also thankful to all of my friends who have given valuable suggestion throughout the project work. I am indebted to my course coordinator Dr. L. Anjaneyulu, Lecturer, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, for his constant encouragement during the execution of this work. Finally, I wish to thank all those who have involved directly or indirectly, for the successful completion of my project work.

With Gratitude, Sachin Ratnakar Kokane.