Anti-Chaff Jamming Method of Radar Based on Real Dataset and Residual Attention Model

As a typical and widely used passive jamming method, chaff clouds have a strong interference effect on radar that remains a significant challenge effectively to counteract. It is exceedingly necessary to improve the anti-chaff jamming ability of radars. In this paper, we address this challenge by pr...

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Main Authors: Shuolei Li, Bin Liu, Lin Zhou, Jingping Liu
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-04-01
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description As a typical and widely used passive jamming method, chaff clouds have a strong interference effect on radar that remains a significant challenge effectively to counteract. It is exceedingly necessary to improve the anti-chaff jamming ability of radars. In this paper, we address this challenge by proposing an effective residual attention network named RA-Net. Specifically, we introduce an attention mechanism that enables the network to focus on the most informative and stable hierarchical features of the high-resolution range profile (HRRP) data, significantly improving the model’s feature extraction capability and overall performance. In addition, we address the limitation of insufficient measured chaff cloud echo data by establishing a remarkably rich and diverse data set of chaff cloud HRRP data through extensive field experiments. This dataset serves as a valuable resource and a critical foundation for advancing HRRP recognition research in this domain. Experimental results on measured HRRP data demonstrate that RA-Net achieves superior recognition accuracy of 97.10%, outperforming traditional methods, and also exhibits outstanding generalization capability. These results establish RA-Net as a new benchmark for chaff cloud HRRP recognition.
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spelling doaj-art-db30f57835f54b79a3c7331920cc1dc62025-08-20T02:31:08ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202025-04-01259266310.3390/s25092663Anti-Chaff Jamming Method of Radar Based on Real Dataset and Residual Attention ModelShuolei Li0Bin Liu1Lin Zhou2Jingping Liu3School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, ChinaSchool of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, ChinaSchool of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, ChinaSchool of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, ChinaAs a typical and widely used passive jamming method, chaff clouds have a strong interference effect on radar that remains a significant challenge effectively to counteract. It is exceedingly necessary to improve the anti-chaff jamming ability of radars. In this paper, we address this challenge by proposing an effective residual attention network named RA-Net. Specifically, we introduce an attention mechanism that enables the network to focus on the most informative and stable hierarchical features of the high-resolution range profile (HRRP) data, significantly improving the model’s feature extraction capability and overall performance. In addition, we address the limitation of insufficient measured chaff cloud echo data by establishing a remarkably rich and diverse data set of chaff cloud HRRP data through extensive field experiments. This dataset serves as a valuable resource and a critical foundation for advancing HRRP recognition research in this domain. Experimental results on measured HRRP data demonstrate that RA-Net achieves superior recognition accuracy of 97.10%, outperforming traditional methods, and also exhibits outstanding generalization capability. These results establish RA-Net as a new benchmark for chaff cloud HRRP recognition.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/9/2663chaff jammingdatasetradarHRRPresidualattention mechanism
spellingShingle Shuolei Li
Bin Liu
Lin Zhou
Jingping Liu
Anti-Chaff Jamming Method of Radar Based on Real Dataset and Residual Attention Model
Sensors
chaff jamming
dataset
radar
HRRP
residual
attention mechanism
title Anti-Chaff Jamming Method of Radar Based on Real Dataset and Residual Attention Model
title_full Anti-Chaff Jamming Method of Radar Based on Real Dataset and Residual Attention Model
title_fullStr Anti-Chaff Jamming Method of Radar Based on Real Dataset and Residual Attention Model
title_full_unstemmed Anti-Chaff Jamming Method of Radar Based on Real Dataset and Residual Attention Model
title_short Anti-Chaff Jamming Method of Radar Based on Real Dataset and Residual Attention Model
title_sort anti chaff jamming method of radar based on real dataset and residual attention model
topic chaff jamming
dataset
radar
HRRP
residual
attention mechanism
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/9/2663
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