Target Discrimination with Neural Networks,
Abstract
The feasibility of discriminating the warhead from an intentionally segmented exoatmospheric threat missile is demonstrated by applying the time delay neural network (TDNN) and the adaptive time delay neural network (ATNN). Exoatmospheric threats are especially difficult to distinguish using currently available techniques because all threat segments follow the same trajectory. Thus, classification must be done using infrared sensors that record the signal over time. Results have demonstrated that the trained neural networks were able to successfully identify warheads from other missile parts on a variety of simulated scenarios, including differing angles and tumbling. The network with adaptive time delays (the ATNN) performs highly complex mapping on a limited set of training data and achieves better generalization to overall trends of situations compared to the TDNN, which includes time delays but adapts only its weights. The ATNN was trained on additive noisy data, and it is shown that the ATNN possesses robustness to environment variations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1996
- Accession Number
- ADA319959
Entities
People
- Cheryl Resh
- Daw-tung Lin
- Judith Dayhoff
Organizations
- University of Maryland