Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (12): 3452-3461.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2021.12.05

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Micro-Doppler separation and feature extraction algorithm based on trend estimation

Zhenghong PENG1, Degui YANG1,*, Xing WANG2, Hao WANG3, Zhengliang ZHU4   

  1. 1. School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
    2. School of Automation, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
    3. State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
    4. Key Laboratory of Underwater Acoustic Communication and Marine Information Technology of the Ministry of Education, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
  • Received:2020-09-21 Online:2021-11-24 Published:2021-11-30
  • Contact: Degui YANG

Abstract:

Feature extraction and identification of micro-motion targets has always been a research difficulty in ballistic target recognition. Aiming at the difficulty of micro-motion identification caused by the overlapping and coupling of micro-Doppler (m-D) curves of complex moving targets, a separation algorithm based on curve trend estimation is proposed. Firstly, the algorithm obtains stable and fine binarization curve data through skeleton extraction. Then, the curve trend is accurately estimated and separated based on curve smoothness and interpolation method. Finally, the variational mode decomposition (VMD) and empirical mode decomposition (EMD) algorithms are used to decompose each m-D curve and calculate the corresponding micro-motion characteristics. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can stably separate the m-D curves when the signal to noise ratio is greater than -15 dB, and then extract the micro-motion feature of the target.

Key words: micro-motion echo model, curve trend estimation, curve separation, variational mode decomposition (VMD), empirical mode decomposition (EMD)

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