Notice of RetractionA target selection method for ASM based on ICP algorithm

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It´s a hard task for anti-ship missile (ASM) to select the target ship from multi-objects acquired by terminal guidance radar. In this paper, a method to select the target in a ship formation is presented based on iterated closet point (ICP) algorithm. The principle of this method is described as follows: (1) a ship formation is independently detected by fire-control radar and terminal guidance radar, and the detected ships by each sensor are separately described with two point sets in a plane; (2) the target selection is realized by matching this two point sets based on ICP algorithm, i.e. finding the correspondences of points in the two point sets; (3) the correspondence of the designated ship in the point set detected by fire-control radar is the target ship to be selected. Compared with former MPR (mutual Position Relationship) method, the performance of the method in this paper is hardly influenced while the ship formation changes the course during the self-control phase of ASM. This superiority is validated by simulation results.