Iranian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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The concepts of robust classification and intelligently controlling the search process of genetic algorithm (GA) are introduced and integrated with a conventional genetic classifier for development of a new version of it, which is called Intelligent and Robust GA-classifier (IRGA-classifier). It can efficiently approximate the decision hyperplanes in the feature space. It is shown experimentally that the proposed IRGA-classifier has removed two important weak points of the conventional GA-classifiers. These problems are the large number of training points and the large number of iterations to achieve a comparable performance with the Bayes classifier, which is an optimal conventional classifier. Three examples have been chosen to compare the performance of designed IRGA-classifier to conventional GA-classifier and Bayes classifier. They are the Iris data classification, the Wine data classification, and radar targets classification from backscattered signals. The results show clearly a considerable improvement for the performance of IRGA-classifier compared with a conventional GA-classifier.

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Automatic signal type identification (ASTI) is an important topic for both the civilian and military domains. Most of the proposed identifiers can only recognize a few types of digital signal and usually need high levels of SNRs. This paper presents a new high efficient technique that includes a variety of digital signal types. In this technique, a combination of higher order moments and higher order cumulants (up to eighth) are proposed as the effective features. A hierarchical support vector machine based structure is proposed as the classifier. In order to improve the performance of identifier, a genetic algorithm is used for parameters selection of the classifier. Simulation results show that the proposed technique is able to identify the different types of digital signal (e.g. QAM128, ASK8, and V29) with high accuracy even at low SNRs.