Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2025, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (6): 1488-1500.doi: 10.23919/JSEE.2025.000068

• DEFENCE ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY • Previous Articles    

Deception analysis of threat source direction finding in trajectory planning by FDA radar

Bo WANG1,*(), Gang WANG2(), Yonglin LI1(), Rennong YANG1(), Yu ZHAO1()   

  1. 1 Air Traffic Control and Navigation School, Air Force Engineering University, Xi’an 710051, China
    2 Air and Missile Defense College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi’an 710051, China
  • Received:2024-01-17 Accepted:2024-08-27 Online:2025-12-18 Published:2026-01-07
  • Contact: Bo WANG E-mail:wangbo_wb1991@163.com;sharesunny123@163.com;liyonglin1@126.com;karenjjj@163.com;zhaoyu106@163.com
  • About author:
    WANG Bo was born in 1991. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Air and Missile Defense College, Air Force Engineering University in 2013, 2015, and 2020, respectively. He is a lecturer at the Air Traffic Control and Navigation School, Air Force Engineering University. At the same time, he is a postdoctor at the Air and Missile Defense College, Air Force Engineering University. His research focuses on electronic warfare technology in mission planning. E-mail: wangbo_wb1991@163.com

    WANG Gang was born in 1975. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Air and Missile Defense College, Air Force Engineering University in 1997, 2000, and 2003, respectively. His research interests include machine learning, information fusion, and command and control systems. E-mail: sharesunny123@163.com

    LI Yonglin was born in 1983. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Air Force Engineering University in 2006, 2008, and 2013, respectively. His main research interests include operations research and mission planning. E-mail: liyonglin1@126.com

    YANG Rennong was born in 1969. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Air Force Engineering University in 1992, 1996, respectively. His main research interests include combat management. E-mail: karenjjj@163.com

    ZHAO Yu was born in 1989. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Air Force Engineering University in 2012, 2014, and 2019, respectively. He is a lecturer at the School of Air Traffic Control and Navigation at the Air Force Engineering University. His research focuses on intelligent air combat decision-making. E-mail: zhaoyu106@163.com
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Fund Support Project (61503408), Shaanxi Provincial Association for Science and Technology Youth Talent Support Program Project (20230137), and Shaanxi Provincial Natural Science Basic Research Program General Project (2023JCYB509).

Abstract:

Electronic reconnaissance units commonly utilize an interferometer direction-finding system to measure the incoming direction of radar radiation signals. This approach enables the accurate determination of threat source locations, which is essential for devising route plans oriented toward flight path generation. When a frequency diverse array (FDA) system is adopted by ground radars, errors are introduced into the angle measurements of the passive direction finding system. To address this issue, this study starts with FDA model establishment and equiphasic surface characteristics analysis and analyzes the principles of FDA deception in identifying one-dimensional single-baseline interferometer directions. Additionally, the Cramer-Rao bounds of the signal carrier frequency estimation error and angle measurement error during the interferometer’s direction finding process are considered. The simulation results verify that the one-dimensional single-baseline interferometer direction finding system can be deceived by the FDA radar, and the FDA with a sine frequency offset exhibits the optimum deception effect.

Key words: route planning, frequency diverse array (FDA), interferometer, direction finding deception, Cramer-Rao bound