基于Unscented卡尔曼滤波器的卫星自主天文导航研究

针对星光折射间接敏感地平的卫星自主天文导航方法，建立了带摄动项的状态方程和以星光视高度为观测量的量测方程。由于该状态方程和量测方程都是严重非线性的，利用推广的卡尔曼滤波器进行导航时精度较低。Unscented卡尔曼滤波是一种针对非线性系统的估计新方法。本文提出将Unscented卡尔曼滤波用于自主天文导航。计算机仿真结果显示Unscented卡尔曼滤波的估计精度远优于推广的卡尔曼滤波。     

大口径超轻型反射镜定位和支撑方案研究

地球静止轨道光学遥感器的发展以及遥感器分辨率的不断提高,使得光学遥感器的口径越来越大,大口径反射镜正在成为制约遥感器性能、质量和研制成本的关键因素。本文主要围绕2m口径的超轻型反射镜开展研究,分析了定位和支撑系统的主要功能,提出了适合大口径、超轻型反射镜的定位和支撑系统方案,分析了该方案的基本原理和实现形式。     

一种考虑地球扁率的卫星自主导航方法研究

研究用2个红外地球敏感器和1个星敏感器实现卫星自主导航的方法,地心矢量的测量精度是影响导航精度的重要原因之一,而地心矢量的测量又受到地球扁率的影响.研究地球扁率对地心矢量测量的影响,并提出一种零姿态扁率误差补偿方法,通过仿真验证了这种导航方法及扁率误差补偿算法的有效性.     

非合作目标自主交会对接的椭圆蔓叶线势函数制导

针对非合作式航天器自主交会对接任务的安全性要求,提出了一种基于椭圆蔓叶线的人工势函数制导方法。首先根据视线坐标系建立了相对动力学方程与状态方程。进而应用人工势函数制导方法解决了非合作目标航天器自主交会对接与静态障碍物躲避问题,并且把势函数方法与椭圆蔓叶线函数相结合,解决了追踪航天器在接近目标航天器时运行在安全走廊中的安全性要求。应用Lyapunov稳定性理论证明了在所提出的制导方法控制下系统的稳定性。最后,用精确的数学模型进行了计算机数值仿真,验证了所提出的制导控制方法的正确性和有效性。
     

星间相对测量自主导航的改进容积卡尔曼滤波

针对仅利用星间相对位置测量的双星自主导航系统，提出一种基于可观度的改进容积卡尔曼滤波算法。该算法从系统可观度的物理意义出发，通过对预测协方差阵进行在线调整改善标准容积卡尔曼滤波算法对系统可观度敏感和不满足滤波拟一致性等问题。对具体算例进行数值仿真，校验了该改进容积卡尔曼滤波算法在基于星间相对位置测量的双星自主导航系统中的有效性，与标准容积卡尔曼滤波相比趋稳更快，精度更高。     

Evaluation of a Geiger-mode imaging flash lidar in the approach phase for autonomous safe landing on the Moon

The imaging flash lidar has been considered as a promising sensor for the future space missions such as autonomous safe landing, spacecraft rendezvous and docking due to its ability to provide a full 3D scene with a single or multiple laser pulses. The linear-mode flash lidar has been developed and demonstrated for an autonomous safe landing on the Moon in order to provide an accurate distance measurement to the landing site and its 3D image. Yet, the Geiger-mode flash lidar has also been recognized as an emerging technology for the space missions because it is highly sensitive even to a single photon and provides the very accurate timing of photon arrival. In this study, the performance of the Geiger-mode flash lidar is simulated in the approach phase and evaluated for the autonomous landing on the Moon. Furthermore, a new statistical signal processing algorithm is proposed to remove the noise counts in order to obtain the 3D image from a sequence of laser pulses in the situation of the fast moving spacecraft. The algorithm is shown to be effective for the autonomous landing due to its ability to remove noise events under the condition of low signal-to-noise ratio and improve ranging accuracy.     

Solar and magnetic control on night-time enhancement in TEC near the crest of the Equatorial Ionization Anomaly

The ionospheric Total Electron Content (TECs), derived by dual frequency signals from the Global Positioning System (GPS) recorded near the Indian equatorial anomaly region, Bhopal (23.2°N, 77.4°E, Geomagnetic 14.2°N) were analyzed for the period of January, 2005 to February, 2008. The work deals with monthly, diurnal, solar and magnetic activity variations on night-time enhancement in TEC. From a total of 157 night-time enhancements, 75 occur during pre-midnight and 82 post-midnight hours. The occurrence of night-time enhancement in TEC is utmost during summer months, followed by equinox and winter months. The occurrence of night-time enhancement in TEC decreases with increase in solar and magnetic activities. We observed that peak size and half amplitude duration are positively correlated, while time of occurrence of night-time enhancement in TEC and time of peak enhancement are negatively correlated with solar activity. The peak size, half amplitude duration, time of peak enhancement and time of occurrence of night-time enhancement in TEC shows negative correlation with magnetic activity. The results have been compared with the earlier ones and discussed in terms of possible source mechanism responsible for the enhancement at anomaly crest region.     

The realization and convergence analysis of combined PPP based on raw observation

In order to speed up Precise Point Positioning (PPP)’s convergence, a combined PPP method with GPS and GLONASS which is based on using raw observations is proposed, and the positioning results and convergence time have been compared with that of single system. The ionospheric delays and receiver’s Differential Code Bias (DCB) corrections are estimated as unknown parameters in this method. The numerical results show that the combined PPP has not caused significant impacts on the final solutions, but it greatly improved Position Dilution of Precision (PDOP) and convergence speed and enhanced the reliability of the solution. Meanwhile, the convergence speed is greatly influenced by the receiver’s DCB, positioning results in horizontal which are better than 10 cm can be realized within 10 min. In addition, the ionosphere and DCB products can be provided with high precision.     

飞船自主应急返回控制参数确定方法及应用

当飞船在无地面测控支持的运行段飞行时,必须考虑故障情况下飞船自主返回应急着陆区的控制参数确定问题。本文根据飞船自主应急返回的主要特点和应急着陆区的选取原则,在分析飞船再入动力学过程和实际测量数据的基础上,确立了一种飞船自主应急返回的控制参数计算方法及流程,并简要介绍了该方法在“神舟4号”等飞船测控任务中的应用。     

Correlation of GPS signal fades due to ionospheric scintillation for aviation applications

Deep and frequent Global Positioning System (GPS) signal fading due to strong ionospheric scintillation is a major concern for GPS-guided aviation in equatorial areas during high solar activity. A GPS aviation receiver may lose carrier tracking lock under deep fading, and a lost channel cannot be used for position calculation until lock is reestablished. Hence, frequent loss of lock due to frequent fading can significantly reduce the availability of GPS aviation. However, the geometric diversity of the satellites can mitigate scintillation impact on GPS aviation depending on the correlation level of deep fades between satellites. This paper proposes a metric to measure the correlation level of two fading channels from the perspective of GPS aviation. Using this metric, the satellite-to-satellite correlation is studied based on real scintillation data. The low satellite-to-satellite correlation shown in this paper envisions notable availability benefit from the geometric diversity of satellites under strong scintillation. In addition, this paper proposes a way to generate correlated fading processes with arbitrary correlation coefficients. Using this correlated fading process model, the availability of Localizer Performance with Vertical guidance (LPV)-200 under severe scintillation scenarios is analyzed. The result emphasizes the importance of a fast reacquisition capability of an aviation receiver after a brief outage, which is not currently mandated by the aviation receiver performance standards.