Optimization of Transmitter-Receiver Pairing of Spaceborne Cluster Flight Netted Radar for Area Coverage and Target Detection

In this paper, we investigate the optimization problem of the transmitter-receiver pairing of spaceborne cluster flight netted radar (SCFNR) for area coverage and target detection. First of all, we propose the novel concept of SCFNR integrated cluster flight spacecraft with netted radar, the mobility model for bistatic radar pair with twin-satellite mode, and formulate the radar-target distance distribution function and radar-target distance product distribution function with geometric probability method. Secondly, by dividing surveillance region into grids, we define the 0-1 grid coverage matrix for bistatic radar and the transmitter-receiver pairing matrix for SCFNR with using radar equation and the radar-target distance distribution function, and we describe the optimal problem of transmitter-receiver pairing of SCFNR for area coverage and target detection by defining K-grid coverage matrix. Thirdly, we propose a new algorithm integrated particle swarm optimization with Hungarian algorithm (PSO-HA) to address the optimal problem, which is actually one-to-one pairing problem. Finally, we validate the effectiveness and reasonability of the proposed algorithm through numerical analysis.