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Multistatic micro-Doppler radar feature extraction for classification of unloaded/loaded micro-drones

Ritchie, M; Fioranelli, F; Borrion, H; Griffiths, H; (2017) Multistatic micro-Doppler radar feature extraction for classification of unloaded/loaded micro-drones. IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation , 11 (1) pp. 116-124. 10.1049/iet-rsn.2016.0063. Green open access

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Abstract

This study presents the use of micro-Doppler signatures collected by a multistatic radar to detect and discriminate between micro-drones hovering and flying while carrying different payloads, which may be an indication of unusual or potentially hostile activities. Different features have been extracted and tested, namely features related to the radar cross-section of the micro-drones, as well as the singular value decomposition and centroid of the micro-Doppler signatures. In particular, the added benefit of using multistatic information in comparison with conventional radar is quantified. Classification performance when identifying the weight of the payload that the drone was carrying while hovering was found to be consistently above 96% using the centroid-based features and multistatic information. For the non-hovering scenarios, classification results with accuracy above 95% were also demonstrated in preliminary tests in discriminating between three different payload weights.

Type: Article
Title: Multistatic micro-Doppler radar feature extraction for classification of unloaded/loaded micro-drones
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2016.0063
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1049/iet-rsn.2016.0063
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Science & Technology, Technology, Engineering, Electrical & Electronic, Telecommunications, Engineering, DESIGN
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Security and Crime Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1533715
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