Application of SNNS Model Based On Multi-Dimensional Attention In Drone Radio Frequency Signal Classification

Abstract

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are attracting attention due to their energy efficiency and importance in neuromorphic computing. Therefore, we propose an SNN-based method for classifying drone RF signals in complex electromagnetic environments. Specifically, we designed a new SNNs model called Spiking-EfficientNet based on EfficientNetV2 and improved its performance with a multidimensional attention mechanism. Experimental results demonstrate that Spiking-EfficientNet achieved classification accuracy of 99.13% and 96.02% on the ZK RF and DroneDetectV2 datasets. Importantly, Spiking-EfficientNet not only outperforms traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in performance, but also exhibits significantly lower energy consumption. The energy consumption is only 20.1% of EfficientNetV2, 2.56% of VGG11, 10.71% of ResNet18, and 61.15% of MobileNetV2. This study demonstrates the significant potential of SNNs in drone RF signal classification and provides a low-power solution.