Abstract:The intelligent technology represented by deep learning has exposed vulnerabilities while improving the performance of electromagnetic spectrum control and utilization system. However it has given rise to a number of intelligent electromagnetic attack and defense technologies represented by adversarial examples. With the rapid application and development of intelligence, this field is bound to become another “high point” in the competition of electromagnetic spectrum. This paper attempted to clarify the content of electromagnetic adversarial-example attack and defense, and to provide reference for standardizing the subsequent research and applications, analyzed the vulnerability mechanism of intelligent models and concluded that there was a relationship between the vulnerability and interpretability of intelligent models. Embedding expert knowledge into model learning is the next research direction to improve the robustness of models. The research lineage of electromagnetic signal adversarial example attack and defense was systematically sorted out, and the common laws in the field of adversarial examples were summarized, which could directly referred by electromagnetic signal research. By summarizing the research laws of electromagnetic signal adversarial examples, some the specific problems were refined. On this basis, combining the accumulation in this field in recent years, the next development trend was proposed: adapt to cross-model and cross-task scenarios should be paid more attention, more domain knowledge should be embedded in the adversarial example, the goal was fighting against multi-source integrated sensor systems. The research trend of adversarial defense was to find the trade-off between robustness and generalization, and optimize the processing flow by using signal processing knowledge. Besides, attention should be paid to robustness assessment, which is likely to be one of the key techniques for reliability assessment of next-generation intelligent systems.