Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (12): 3734-3742.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2023.12.03

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Identification of UAV swarm type based on fusion features of communication and radar domain

Shuheng ZHANG, Ruping ZHAI, Yongkai LIU   

  1. School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
  • Received:2022-08-10 Online:2023-11-25 Published:2023-12-05
  • Contact: Shuheng ZHANG

Abstract:

At present, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) type recognition algorithms only realize the identification of a single UAV type through the signal characteristics of the communication domain or radar domain, and there are problems such as low recognition accuracy. This paper proposes a UAV swarm type recognition algorithm based on the fusion characteristics of communication signals and radar signals. Firstly, the high-order cumulant and instantaneous feature statistics of the swarm communication signal are extracted, and the radar track features are fused to construct the UAV swarm feature matrix. Secondly, an improved feature selection algorithm-secondary screening of neighbourhood components analysis (SSNCA) is proposed to reduce the dimensionality of the fusion feature matrix. Finally, a sparse autoencoder network is used for swarm type identification. The simulation results show that the algorithm significantly reduces the dimension of the swarm feature matrix (only 27% of the original matrix dimension). At the same time, when the signal-to-noise ratio is 0 dB, the correct rate of identifying five swarm types can reach 88%.

Key words: unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm type identification, feature selection, high-order cumulant, instantaneous feature statistics, radar trajectory

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