Using star tracker to perform space surveillance is a focal point of research in aerospace engineering. However, autonomous attitude determination with star trackers in missions is a challenging task, because of spacecraft attitude dynamics and false stars. We present a novel star pattern recognition algorithm to resolve these problems. The algorithm defines a star pattern, called a flower code, composed of angular distances and circular angles. Then, a three-step strategy is adopted to find the correspondence of the sensor pattern and the catalog pattern, including initial lookup table match, cyclic dynamic match, and validation. A number of experiments are carried out on simulated and real star images. The simulation results show that the proposed method provides improved performance, especially on robustness against false stars. Also, the results for real star images demonstrate the reliability of the method for ground-based measurements.
Terrain aided navigation (TAN) is an efficient way to periodically correct the error accumulation of INS. The imaging laser radar is an ideal imaging sensor in TAN for the low-flying aircraft and unmanned air vehicles for the high precision multi-dimensional data acquisition capability and concealable attribute. In this paper, a new framework for applying the laser radar to terrain aided navigation is put forward. Then a new adaptive fused Kalman Filter is proposed to improve the accuracy and robustness. At last, the key factors affected the algorithm are analyzed and the comparative experimentations are presented. The simulating experiments show that the proposed algorithm improves the location accuracy, and has good initial error tolerance and fine robustness. It shows that this approach is a valid solution for the application.
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