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25 October 2013Analyzing the effectiveness of flare dispensing programs against pulse width modulation seekers using self-organizing maps
Infrared guided missile seekers utilizing pulse width modulation in target tracking is one of the threats against air platforms. To be able to achieve a “soft-kill” protection of own platform against these type of threats, one needs to examine carefully the seeker operating principle with its special electronic counter-counter measure (ECCM) capability. One of the cost-effective ways of soft kill protection is to use flare decoys in accordance with an optimized dispensing program. Such an optimization requires a good understanding of the threat seeker, capabilities of the air platform and engagement scenario information between them. Modeling and simulation is very powerful tool to achieve a valuable insight and understand the underlying phenomenology. A careful interpretation of simulation results is crucial to infer valuable conclusions from the data. In such an interpretation there are lots of factors (features) which affect the results. Therefore, powerful statistical tools and pattern recognition algorithms are of special interest in the analysis. In this paper, we show how self-organizing maps (SOMs), which is one of those powerful tools, can be used in analyzing the effectiveness of various flare dispensing programs against a PWM seeker. We perform several Monte Carlo runs for a typical engagement scenario in a MATLAB-based simulation environment. In each run, we randomly change the flare dispending program and obtain corresponding class: “successful” or “unsuccessful”, depending on whether the corresponding flare dispensing program deceives the seeker or not, respectively. Then, in the analysis phase, we use SOMs to interpret and visualize the results.
Mehmet Cihan Şahingil andMurat Şamil Aslan
"Analyzing the effectiveness of flare dispensing programs against pulse width modulation seekers using self-organizing maps", Proc. SPIE 8896, Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems: Technology and Applications X, 88960J (25 October 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2029331
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Mehmet Cihan Şahingil, Murat Şamil Aslan, "Analyzing the effectiveness of flare dispensing programs against pulse width modulation seekers using self-organizing maps," Proc. SPIE 8896, Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems: Technology and Applications X, 88960J (25 October 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2029331