简介:Themainfunctionofelectronicsupportmeasuresystemistodetectthreatingsignalsinordertotakecountermeasuresagainstthem.Toaccomplishthisobjective,aprocessofassociatingeachinterleavedpulsewithitsemittermustbedone.Thisprocessistermedsortingorde-interleaving.Anovelpointsymmetrybasedradarsorting(PSBRS)algorithmisaddressed.Inordertodealwithallkindsofradarsignals,thesymmetrymeasuredistanceisusedtoclusterpulsesinsteadoftheconventionalEuclideandistance.Thereferencepointsofthesymmetricalclustersareinitializedbythealternativefuzzyc-means(AFCM)algorithmtoamelioratetheeffectsofnoiseandthefalsesorting.Besides,thedensityfiltering(DF)algorithmisproposedtodiscardthenoisepulsesorclutter.Theperformanceofthealgorithmisevaluatedundertheeffectsofnoiseandmissingpulses.IthasbeenobservedthatthePSBRSalgorithmcancopewithalargenumberofnoisepulsesanditiscompletelyindependentofmissingpulses.Finally,PSBRSiscomparedwithsomebenchmarkalgorithms,andthesimulationresultsrevealthefeasibilityandefficiencyofthealgorithm.