Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (12): 3781-3791.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2023.12.08

• Sensors and Signal Processing • Previous Articles    

Coherent integration with random finite set inferred trajectories for detecting maneuvering targets

Wenbin YANG, Dan LI, Jianqiu ZHANG   

  1. School of Information Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of EMW Information, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
  • Received:2022-10-20 Online:2023-11-25 Published:2023-12-05
  • Contact: Dan LI

Abstract:

Long-time coherent integration technique is one of the most important methods for the improvement of radar detection ability of maneuvering targets, whereas the coherent integration performance may be greatly decreased by the range migration (RM) and/or Doppler frequency migration (DFM). A moving target detector with random finite set inferred motion trajectories is proposed to solve the problem above. Firstly, with the frequency axis reversal transform, the signal describing the motion features of the maneuvering targets is obtained. Secondly, when the time-frequency transformation results of the signal are transferred to the observation random finite sets and the target trajectories are described by the state-space model, the motion trajectories of targets can be inferred under the Bayesian filter framework. Finally, based on the inferred target trajectories, the two-dimensional matched filters can be designed to compensate the unknown RM and/or DFM. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulation experiments verify that the proposed method can be applied to maneuvering targets with complex or even unknown motion forms effectively.

Key words: pulse-Doppler radar, matched filter, random finite set, range migration (RM), Doppler frequency migration (DFM)

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