Online Decision-making Method for Frequency-agile Radar Based on Multi-Armed Bandit

Abstract

Frequency agile technology provides full play to the advantage of radars for adopting electronic countermeasures actively, which can effectively enhance the antinoise suppression jamming performance of radars. However, with the increasing complexity of the interference environment, developing an online decision-making method for frequency-agile radar with dynamic adaptability and without foresight of the nature of the environment is a demanding task. According to the features of the jamming strategy, suppression jamming scenarios are divided into three categories, and an online decision-making method for frequency-agile radar based on Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) is developed to maximize the radar’s detection probability. This approach is an online learning algorithm that does not need to interfere with the foresight of the environment and offline training process and realizes remarkable learning performance from noninterference scenarios to adaptive interference scenarios. The simulation results and theoretical analysis demonstrate that compared with the classical algorithm and stochastic agile strategy, the proposed method has stronger flexibility and can effectively improve the antijamming and target detection performances of the frequency-agile radar for various jamming scenarios.

Keywords

• frequency agility
• noise suppression interference
• detection probability
• multi-armed bandits (mab)
• online learning