Li Jian, Wei Xinguo, Zhang Guangjun
School of Instrument Science and Opto-electronics Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing 100191, China.
Sensors (Basel). 2017 Aug 21;17(8):1921. doi: 10.3390/s17081921.
Efficiency and reliability are key issues when a star sensor operates in tracking mode. In the case of high attitude dynamics, the performance of existing attitude tracking algorithms degenerates rapidly. In this paper an extended Kalman filtering-based attitude tracking algorithm is presented. The star sensor is modeled as a nonlinear stochastic system with the state estimate providing the three degree-of-freedom attitude quaternion and angular velocity. The star positions in the star image are predicted and measured to estimate the optimal attitude. Furthermore, all the cataloged stars observed in the sensor field-of-view according the predicted image motion are accessed using a catalog partition table to speed up the tracking, called star mapping. Software simulation and night-sky experiment are performed to validate the efficiency and reliability of the proposed method.
当星敏感器在跟踪模式下运行时,效率和可靠性是关键问题。在高姿态动力学情况下,现有姿态跟踪算法的性能会迅速退化。本文提出了一种基于扩展卡尔曼滤波的姿态跟踪算法。将星敏感器建模为一个非线性随机系统,其状态估计提供三自由度姿态四元数和角速度。通过预测和测量星图中的恒星位置来估计最优姿态。此外,根据预测的图像运动,利用星表分区表访问在传感器视场中观测到的所有编目恒星,以加速跟踪,称为星图映射。进行了软件仿真和夜空实验,以验证所提方法的效率和可靠性。