Pulse‐level work state recognition of multifunction radar based on MC‐RSG

Abstract

Abstract Accurate work state recognition of multifunction radar (MFR) is crucial in electronic warfare, as it helps understand the enemy's intention and evaluate potential threats. A pulse‐level work state recognition method of MFR based on the residual block with spatial attention connected gated recurrent unit by features using metric coding and correlative embedding (MC‐RSG) is proposed. Metric coding is designed to generate the distance vector with time of arrival, and the correlative embedding is performed on the distance vector and raw data features to increase the feature information by extracting feature information associated with the previous and subsequent pulses in each feature sequence, respectively. Besides, we make use of the model called RSG containing the residual block with spatial attention connected gated recurrent unit to learn the features of pulse sequences and identify the radar work state label of each pulse. The experimental work shows that the method is robust and has achieved up to 97% recognition accuracy on the test dataset under ideal observation conditions and 5% higher than the comparison network in high noise observation conditions.

Keywords

• multifunction radar
• radar emitter recognition
• radar signal processing
• radar target recognition