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In complex electromagnetic environments, efficiently and accurately recognizing the inter-pulse modulations of non-cooperative radar pulse sequences is a key step for modern Electronic Support (ES) systems. Existing recognition methods focus more on algorithmic designs, such as neural network structure designs, to improve recognition performance. However, in open electromagnetic environments with increased flexibility in radar transmission, these methods would suffer performance degradation due to domain shifts between training and testing datasets. To address this issue, this study proposes a robust radar inter-pulse modulation feature extraction and recognition method based on disentangled representation learning. At first, inspired by the Representation Learning Theory (RLT), the received radar pulse sequences can be disentangled into three explanatory factors related to (i) modulation types, (ii) modulation parameters, and (iii) measurement characteristics, such as measurement noise. Then, an explainable radar pulse sequence disentanglement network is proposed based on auto-encoding variational Bayes. The features extracted through the proposed method can effectively represent the key latent factors related to recognition tasks and maintain performance under domain shift conditions. Experiments on both ideal and non-ideal situations demonstrate the effectiveness, robustness, and superiority of the proposed method in comparison with other methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16193585","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,26]],"date-time":"2024-09-26T06:55:52Z","timestamp":1727333752000},"page":"3585","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Disentangled Representation Learning for Robust Radar Inter-Pulse Modulation Feature Extraction and Recognition"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0003-4217-8755","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Luyao","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 518172, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0502-3386","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mengtao","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China"},{"name":"Laboratory of Electromagnetic Space Cognition and Intelligent Control, Beijing 100191, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0750-9726","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ziwei","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Cyberspace Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3721-0178","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yunjie","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"30","DOI":"10.1109\/MSP.2006.1593335","article-title":"Cognitive radar: A way of the future","volume":"23","author":"Haykin","year":"2006","journal-title":"IEEE Signal Process. 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