Distributed Clustering Method Based on Spatial Information

Abstract

Radar pulse deinterleaving is the core part of electronic reconnaissance system, which is responsible for sorting out the pulses coming from different emitters. In the process of signal deinterleaving, parameter clustering is an important method. The features for clustering are mainly derived from pulse parameters emitted by the radiation source transmitter. When the multiple target signals are seriously mixed in a complex environment, the clustering accuracy decreases. To solve this problem, a distributed clustering method based on spatial information is proposed. First, a multi-node distributed system is built, one of the nodes is taken as the central node, and the pulse information transmitted by other nodes through the link is received. All pulses at the central node are jointly clustered according to the three parameters of radio frequency (RF), pulse width (PW) and time of arrival (TOA), forming an associated pulse description word (APDW). Then, the associated pulse is spatially marked based on its spatial information within the range of the target area of interest. Finally, the associated pulse is re-clustered using the marked information and pulse parameters to achieve effective target separation. The simulation results show that the method can overcome the influence of parameter agility and make full use of the spatial information of the target to improve the accuracy of pulse clustering.

Keywords

• Clustering
• distribution
• radar emitter
• signal deinterleaving
• spatial information