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Enhanced Pulse Amplitude Estimation Method for Electronic Warfare Support

전자전 지원을 위한 향상된 펄스 세기 추정 기법

  • Lee, Yu-Ri (Pusan National University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Gyu (Pusan National University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) ;
  • Kwak, Hyungyu (Agency for Defense Development, The 2nd R&D Institute - 2nd Directorate - 1 Team) ;
  • Kim, Hyoung-Nam (Pusan National University Department of Electronics Engineering)
  • Received : 2016.08.11
  • Accepted : 2016.11.14
  • Published : 2017.03.31

Abstract

In electronic warfare, the pulse amplitude, one of information of a pulse signal emitted by an enemy, is used for estimating distance from the source and for deinterleaving mixed source signals. An estimate of pulse amplitude is conventionally determined as the maximum magnitude of a Fourier transformed signal within its pulse width which is estimated pre-step in an electronic warfare receiver. However, when frequency modulated signals are received, it is difficult to estimate their pulse amplitudes with this conventional method because the energy of signals is dispersed in frequency domain. In order to overcome this limitation, this paper proposes an enhanced pulse amplitude estimation method which calculates the average power of the received pulse signal in time domain and removes the noise power of the receiver. Simulation results show that even in case the frequency modulated signal is received, the proposed method has the same performance as estimating the pulse amplitude when unmodulated signal is received. In addition, the proposed method is shown to be more robust to an estimation error of pulse width, which affects the estimation performance of pulse amplitude, than the conventional method.

전자전에서 적군이 방사한 펄스 신호에 관한 정보 중에서 펄스 세기는 방사되는 신호원의 거리를 추정하고 혼재되어 들어오는 신호원들을 분리할 때 사용된다. 기존의 펄스 세기 추정 방식에서는 이전 단계에서 추정된 펄스폭에 해당하는 신호를 푸리에 변환한 후에 주파수 영역으로 변환된 신호 세기의 최댓값을 수신된 펄스 신호의 세기로 추정을 하였다. 하지만 이러한 방식은 주파수 변조 신호가 수신될 경우 주파수 영역에서 에너지가 분산되어 펄스 세기를 정확하게 추정하기 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 단점을 개선하기 위하여 시간 영역에서 수신된 펄스의 평균 전력을 구하고 수신기에서의 잡음의 평균 전력을 제거하여 펄스 세기를 추정하는 기법을 제안한다. 모의실험을 통해 주파수 변조 신호가 수신될 경우에 제안된 기법이 무변조 신호와 동일한 성능을 가지는 것을 보인다. 추가로 펄스 세기 추정은 이전 단계에서 발생한 펄스 폭 오차에 영향을 받게 되는데, 동일한 펄스 폭의 오차가 발생했을 때 기존 기법보다 제안하는 기법이 강건함을 보인다.

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