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Periodic FRFT-based Multi-component LFMCW Radar Signal Separating

HUANG Yu1, LIU Feng1,2, WANG Zezhong1, XIANG Chongwen1   

  1. 1. Department of Electronic Engineering, Naval Aeronautical Engineering Institute, Yantai 264001, China;
    2. No.91635 Unit, People's Liberation Army, Beijing 102249, China
  • Received:2012-05-17 Revised:2012-10-10 Online:2013-04-25 Published:2013-04-23
  • Contact: Yu HUANG E-mail:fengliuhy@163.com
  • Supported by:

    National Natural Science Foundation of China (60902054); China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (20090460114, 201003758) *Corresponding author. Tel.: 0535-6635821 E-mail: fengliuhy@163.com

Abstract:

The interception and feature extraction of multi-component linear frequency modulation continuous waveform (LFMCW) signals is difficult to perform for a radar intelligence reconnaissance system. In order to fast detect and efficiently separate multi-component LFMCW radar signals, a novel method is presented. First, with the introduction of periodic fractional Fourier transform (PFRFT), the relationship between PFRFT and FRFT is analyzed, and the PFRFT of a LFMCW signal is discussed. Then, a numerical computation method of discrete PFRFT is given, and the separation of the multi-component LFMCW signals is realized by narrowband filtering on the periodic fractional Fourier domain (PFRFD) with CLEAN. Finally, simulation results show several conclusions: (a) the computation efficiency of PFRFT outperforms periodic Wigner-Hough transform (PWHT); (b) the LFMCW signal component has energy peak on a certain PFRFD and preserves its time-frequency characteristic after separating; (c) when the powers of two LFMCW signals are widely different, it is efficient to separate on the PFRFD, otherwise separation on the time domain is better; (d) when the two LFMCW signal components have similar powers and the signal noise ratio (SNR) is 0 dB, the correlation coefficients between the separated and original LFMCW signal components are both greater than 0.9.

Key words: fractional Fourier transform, linear frequency modulation continuous waveform, detection, signal separating, feature extraction

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