Effective path planning method for low detectable aircraft

To utilizing the characteristic of radar cross section （RCS） of the low detectable aircraft, a special path planning algorithm to eluding radars by the variable RCS is presented. The algorithm first gives the RCS changing model of low detectable aircraft, then establishes a threat model of a ground-based air defense system according to the relations between RCS and the radar range coverage. By the new cost functions of the flight path, which consider both factors of the survival probability and the distance of total route, this path planning method is simulated based on the Dijkstra algorithm, and the planned route meets the flight capacity constraints. Simulation results show that using the effective path planning algorithm, the low detectable aircraft can give full play to its own advantage of stealth to achieve the purpose of silent penetration.

Pre-locate net for object detection in high-resolution images

Small-object detection has long been a challenge.High-megapixel cameras are used to solve this problem in industries.However,current detectors are inefficient for high-resolution images.In this work,we propose a new module called Pre-Locate Net,which is a plug-and-play structure that can be combined with most popular detectors.We inspire the use of classification ideas to obtain candidate regions in images,greatly reducing the amount of calculation,and thus achieving rapid detection in high-resolution images.Pre-Locate Net mainly includes two parts,candidate region classification and behavior classification.Candidate region classification is used to obtain a candidate region,and behavior classification is used to estimate the scale of an object.Different follow-up processing is adopted according to different scales to balance the variance of the network input.Different from the popular candidate region generation method,we abandon the idea of regression of a bounding box and adopt the concept of classification,so as to realize the prediction of a candidate region in the shallow network.We build a high-resolution dataset of aircraft and landing gears covering complex scenes to verify the effectiveness of our method.Compared to state-of-the-art detectors(e.g.,Guided Anchoring,Libra-RCNN,and FASF),our method achieves the best m AP of 94.5 on 1920×1080 images at 16.7 FPS.

Millimeter-wave emission characteristics of bilayer radar-infrared compound stealth material

To achieve radar and infrared stealth, an infrared stealth layer is usually added to the radar absorbing material（RAM） of stealth aircraft. By analyzing the millimeter-wave（MMW） emissivities of three stealth materials, this Letter investigates the impact of the added infrared stealth layer on the originally ＂hot＂ MMW emission of RAM. The theoretical and measured results indicate that, compared with the monolayer RAM, the MMW emission of the bilayer material is still strong and its emissivity is reduced by 0.1–0.2 at almost every incident angle.The results partially demonstrate the feasibility of detecting stealth aircraft coated with this bilayer stealth material.