Effect of dual aircraft formation spacing on target position tracking on measurement conversion by monopulse radar

• Main Authors: Mingjie Liu, Chunyang Wang, Huiyong Zeng, Changlin Zhou
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2021-07-01
• Series: AIP Advances
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0055176

Aimed at the current problem of insufficient analysis of the influence of the diversified formation of dual aircraft on monopulse radar position tracking, the dual aircraft echo equivalent two point source jamming model is built. We designed the dual aircraft formation penetration movement scenario and three different formation spacings of 150, 250, and 350 m and extracted the dynamic radar cross section sequences of dual aircraft under different formation spacings. We established the dual aircraft formation equivalent scenario and calculated the dynamic signal-to-noise ratio and distance measurement accuracy of the radar received echo signals with different formation spacings. We fully considered the randomness characteristics of the phase difference of the actual dual aircraft echo and built the random angle error model of dual aircraft echo equivalent jamming. The distribution and random numerical characteristics of the random angular error are simulated and analyzed, and we combined the radar measurement conversion target position tracking algorithm to analyze the influence of different formation spacings on the monopulse radar tracking target position and position tracking accuracy. The simulation results show that a formation spacing of 350 m produces a greater randomness of angular error for dual targets, resulting in a greater dispersion of radar measurement traces, and the final average position mean square error is 132.8 m, which improves the position error by 15.6% compared with 150 m spacing.