학술논문

Radar Cross Section Reduction of Antenna Array With LK-ResNet
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters Antennas Wirel. Propag. Lett. Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE. 22(12):2993-2997 Dec, 2023
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Antenna arrays
Manganese
Radar cross-sections
Antennas
Radar antennas
Antenna measurements
Switches
Antenna array
light kernel residual network (LK-ResNet)
radar cross section (RCS)
switch matrix
Language
ISSN
1536-1225
1548-5757
Abstract
In this letter, a new method is proposed for reducing the radar cross section (RCS) of an antenna array. The RCS is reduced by optimizing the spatial arrangement of the antenna array, which is treated as a classification problem. To achieve this, an RCS excitation matrix is generated using radar signal direction of arrival and array information. This matrix is then input into a carefully designed light kernel residual network (LK-ResNet) to produce a switch matrix. Light kernels can increase the number of channels and nonlinearity with lower time complexity. The numerical and simulated results show that the proposed RCS excitation matrix provides much higher classification accuracy than the initial data. The LK-ResNet offers superior stealth performance when compared with other networks. Furthermore, the proposed method is also validated with measurement.