Adaptive Radar Signal Detection in Autoregressive Interference using Kalman-based Filters

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1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, P.O. Box 89195-741, Iran

2 - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, P.O. Box 84156-83111, Iran - Department of Electrical Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, P.O. Box 89195-741, Iran

Abstract

This paper deals with the adaptive detection of radar target signal with unknown amplitude embedded in Gaussian interference which has been modelled as an AR process. Considering such model for the interference decreases the number of parameters that must be estimated and therefore less or even no secondary data is needed to obtain a detector with desired performance. Herein the detection is based on only the primary data. The authors resorting to the modern Kalman filtering technique develop the conventional GLRT-based detection in the presence of AR interference and propose two new detectors; AREKF based on extended Kalman filter and ARUKF based on unscented Kalman filter. The performance assessment conducted by Monte Carlo simulation compares the proposed detectors with the existing detectors based on generalised likelihood ratio test and Kalman filter. The results show that the ARUKF detector significantly has better detection performance than that of other detectors for the low number of primary data and high signal to noise ratio (SNR).

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Scientia Iranica
Volume 28, Issue 6 - Serial Number 6
Transactions on Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering (D)
November and December 2021
Pages 3352-3362

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  • Receive Date: 06 January 2018
  • Revise Date: 17 April 2019
  • Accept Date: 17 June 2019

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