A new method is proposed to improve the problem that many samples and long search time are required in the traditional methods to determine the threshold factor of constant false alarm ratio(CFAR)detector. The method estimates threshold factors for radar CFAR detectors based on particle swarm optimization(PSO)algorithm. The problem to determine the threshold factor under given false alarm probability is first converted into a minimization problem
then the minimization problem is solved using PSO method. The inertia weight is adaptively adjusted with the iteration during minimization. Therefore the method has better performance of global search and local search
and higher efficiency of search. Simulation results show that the method can accurately estimate the threshold factor for single radar or radar netting system. Compared with a genetic algorithm
50 percent of running time is saved
and the accuracy of estimation is improved. The numerical results indicate that the proposed scheme can quickly and accurately find the estimation of threshold factors for most CFAR detectors.
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