Approach based on combination of vector neural networks for emitter identification

To deal with the problem of emitter identification caused by the measurement uncertainty of emitter feature parameters, this study proposes a new identification algorithm based on combination of vector neural networks (CVNN), which is deduced from the backpropagation vector neural network and can realise the non-linear mapping between the interval-value input data and the interval-value output emitter types. The key idea of CVNN is to adopt a combination of multiple multi-input/single-output neural networks to construct an identification system; each of the networks can only realise the identification function between two emitter types. Through quantitative analysis, it can be concluded that the proposed algorithm requires less computational load in the training stage. A number of simulations are presented to demonstrate the identification capability of the CVNN algorithm for emitter signals with and without additive noise. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm not only has better identification capability, but also is relatively more insensitive to noise.