Single-channel source separation of multi-component radar signal based on EVD and ICA

Abstract

This study explored a novel method based on eigenvalue decomposition (EVD) and independent component analysis (ICA) to separate the multi-component radar signal in the single channel. By exploiting the generalized periodicity of the radar signal, the proposed method structures the multi-dimensional matrix from the observed signal in single-channel through EVD, then applies ICA to the matrix to determine the basic waveform of each component, and finally reconstructs the component signals. Simulation results confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed method and compared it with other methods, although the performance of proposed approach is a bit worse than some other method when processing radar signals, the most outstanding advantage of the proposed approach is that it does not require any other known conditions, and it can recover the component signals with a satisfactory level, so it can yet be regarded as an effective method.