Design and application of a radar target simulator

Abstract

Abstract To fulfill the need for debugging boundary scenes in radar data processing development, this paper proposes a simulator design method for the editing and simulation of diverse combat scenes as required. The simulator was developed based on the VPX platform, including external control equipment, resource scheduling, beam control, target simulation, and data processing. The motion model is based on linear and circular models, the clutter model algorithm is the zero memory nonlinear transformation method based on K distributions, and the noise model is designed as Gaussian white noise, characterized by a probability distribution in the Gaussian distribution and a constant power spectrum. The generated plots are condensed, and their quality is calculated, for which the rate of plot rejection can reach more than 50% by controlling the feature elements. Finally, the simulated target trajectory is visually verified through Matlab.