Structures of adaptive signal processing systems for external information radio location sensors in correlation-extreme aircraft navigation systems

1Mezentsev, O, 2Mironyuk, S, 2Osinovyj, GG, 2Kozis, KV
1Institute of Information Recording of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2Yangel Yuzhnoye State Design Office, Dnipro, Ukraine
Space Sci. & Technol. 2023, 29 ;(6):102-106
https://doi.org/10.15407/knit2023.06.102
Publication Language: English
Abstract: 
During the guidance of the aircraft on the final part of the flight, it is affected, along with other external factors, by interferences of various (artificial or natural) origins. These interferences have various effects on the receiving elements of the antenna array of the radar sensor of external information. Due to the variability and rapidity of the complex interference situation, adaptive interference protection systems are the most effective in combating these interferences. It is known that the use of adaptive processing systems allows for overcoming the practically inevitable a priori uncertainty of statistical characteristics of signals and interference of various origins. At present, due to the development of digital technology, new methods and devices for adaptive signal processing against the background of interference have appeared. Thus, the arsenal of methods of adaptation to Gaussian disturbances has been supplemented by methods involving the inversion (direct or recurrent) of the most plausible estimates of correlation matrices of disturbances or their regularized varieties. Wide possibilities of adaptation are opened up in modern radar stations with multi-element phased antenna arrays, which provide for digital information processing.
         Due to the very high speed of the aircraft during the operation of its correlation-extreme guidance system, as well as due to the dynamic and non-stationary interference environment, an important requirement for adaptive anti-jamming systems is their speed. The effectiveness of adaptive processing of signals against the background of interference can be significantly increased by using reliable a priori information. The paper considers a method of increasing the speed of adaptive protection systems against radar interference of various origins by taking into account a priori information about the central symmetry of the receiving channels of radar sensors of external information of correlation-extreme aircraft navigation systems. It is shown that taking into account such a priori information as the central symmetry of the receiving channels of radar sensors of external information leads to a corresponding change in the structure of devices for adaptive signal processing in the conditions of interference in these sensors and as a consequence, to an increase in their speed.
Keywords: adaptive signal processing systems, antenna array, interference, radar sensors
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