Automatic modulation recognition of radio fuzes using a DR2D-based adaptive denoising method and textural feature extraction

Abstract

The identification of intercepted radio fuze modulation types is a prerequisite for decision-making in interference systems. However, the electromagnetic environment of modern battlefields is complex, and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of such environments is usually low, which makes it difficult to implement accurate recognition of radio fuzes. To solve the above problem, a radio fuze automatic modulation recognition (AMR) method for low-SNR environments is proposed. First, an adaptive denoising algorithm based on data rearrangement and the two-dimensional (2D) fast Fourier transform (FFT) (DR2D) is used to reduce the noise of the intercepted radio fuze intermediate frequency (IF) signal. Then, the textural features of the denoised IF signal rearranged data matrix are extracted from the statistical indicator vectors of gray-level cooccurrence matrices (GLCMs), and support vector machines (SVMs) are used for classification. The DR2D-based adaptive denoising algorithm achieves an average correlation coefficient of more than 0.76 for ten fuze types under SNRs of −10 dB and above, which is higher than that of other typical algorithms. The trained SVM classification model achieves an average recognition accuracy of more than 96% on seven modulation types and recognition accuracies of more than 94% on each modulation type under SNRs of -12 dB and above, which represents a good AMR performance of radio fuzes under low SNRs.