多敏感器信息融合技术在卫星姿态确定中的应用

针对惯性陀螺、星敏感器和红外地平仪组成的卫星姿态确定系统,基于联邦卡尔曼滤波技术和多敏感器信息融合技术,提出了二级分散滤波方案,该方案能够实现系统的故障诊断与系统重构,提高系统的可靠性,最后通过仿真解算出高精度的姿态测量信息。     

星敏感器光轴测量的锥面误差模型及其应用

星敏感器是卫星高精度姿态测量系统中的重要器件,根据其测量可以建立不同形式的星敏感器测量模型,准确分析测量模型中测量误差的特性是保证卫星姿态确定精度的重要条件。本文针对广泛采用的星敏感器光轴矢量测量方程,从几何角度出发,结合实际情况,提出了一种新颖的星敏感器光轴测量的锥面误差模型。在两个锥面参数分别服从一定的概率分布的条件下,对测量误差特性进行了深入分析,确定出新的测量误差协方差矩阵。上述研究能够在不增加算法计算量的前提下,从新的角度,更为直观地建立了星敏感器光轴矢量测量模型。最后在仿真实验中,将新的锥面误差测量模型应用于基于扩展卡尔曼滤波（EKF）的姿态确定方法中,结果表明了利用该测量模型进行姿态确定的有效性。     

Impact of DORIS ground antennas environment on their radio signal quality

Among the factors which may disrupt the DORIS measurements quality, the ground antennas environment is of high importance. For a set of 15 selected DORIS beacon, the differences between the effective and theoretical power received on-board the satellites (SPOT-5 and Envisat) have been analyzed in terms of spatial direction around the antenna. Such antenna maps have also been established regarding the Doppler residuals of the least-square precise orbit adjustment. Thanks to 360° views from the antennas and aerial views of the sites, the impact of the signal obstructions (trees, roofs, antennas …) on power attenuation and Doppler residuals is discussed. Depending on the nature of the obstructed object, the attenuation level can reach more than 5 dB, and the residual RMS of the orbit adjustment may be doubled from the nominal value, reaching 1 mm/s locally. The nature of the ground at the foot of the antennas has been correlated to DORIS signal quality at high elevation: reflections on flat surfaces (e.g. roofs) affect the signal more significantly than reflections on natural ground (e.g. soil). In particular, a modeling of the multipath phenomenon affecting Fairbanks site has been established and fits remarkably with the observations. Finally, an evaluation of the direct impact of obstructing objects on the orbit has also been performed. The example of a scaffolding at Kauai site displays a few millimeters error in the along-track position of the satellite.     

New improved orbit solutions for the ERS-1 and ERS-2 satellites

Improved orbit solutions of the European Remote Sensing Satellites ERS-1 and ERS-2 have been computed in the ITRF2005 terrestrial reference frame using the recent models based mainly on IERS Conventions 2003. These solutions cover the periods 3 August 1991 to 8 July 1996 for ERS-1, and 3 May 1995 to 4 July 2003 for ERS-2. For each satellite, the final orbit solution is based on a combination of three separate orbit solutions independently computed at the Delft Institute of Earth Observation and Space Systems (DEOS) of the Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands), the Navigation Support Office of the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC, Germany) and the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences (Germany) using three different software packages for precise orbit determination, but using the same models in the same terrestrial reference frame within the European Space Agency (ESA) project ‘Reprocessing of Altimeter Products for ERS (REAPER)’. Validation using radar altimeter data indicates that the new combined orbits of ERS-1 and ERS-2 computed by us are significantly more accurate, approaching the 2–3 cm level in radial direction, than previously available orbit solutions.     

Survey-only optical strategies for cataloguing space debris objects in the future European space surveillance system

In the framework of a potential European Space Situational Awareness System (ESSAS), we propose some optical strategies such that try to minimize the requirement of tracking measurements for the orbit determination computation when the catalogue is under construction. We will analyse them in terms of coverage, timeliness and orbit determination accuracy by means of the AS4 simulator (developed by Deimos Space S.L.U.). Moreover, observation campaigns have been performed from La Sagra Observatory in order to check the applicability of those strategies. These strategies are used for defining different choices for the future European Optical Space Surveillance System in the framework of the ESA contract no. 22738/09/D/HK.     

Modified unscented Kalman filtering and its application in autonomous satellite navigation

In this paper, a modified unscented Kalman filter (UKF) for nonlinear stochastic systems is proposed, and it is applied to autonomous orbit determination for Earth satellites. Based on some standard results about the boundedness of stochastic processes and a new formulation of the unscented transformation (UT), it is demonstrated that the design of the noise covariance matrix plays an important role in enhancing the filter stability. Furthermore, a particular design of the noise covariance matrix is proposed as a modification of the UKF. The modified UKF is less sensitive to the initial error than the usual one. High performance of the modified UKF is illustrated in comparison with the usual one by using the real data obtained from an Earth sensor.     

Central difference predictive filter for attitude determination with low precision sensors and model errors

Attitude determination is one of the key technologies for Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) of a satellite. However, serious model errors may exist which will affect the estimation accuracy of ACDS, especially for a small satellite with low precision sensors. In this paper, a central difference predictive filter (CDPF) is proposed for attitude determination of small satellites with model errors and low precision sensors. The new filter is proposed by introducing the Stirling’s polynomial interpolation formula to extend the traditional predictive filter (PF). It is shown that the proposed filter has higher accuracy for the estimation of system states than the traditional PF. It is known that the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) has also been used in the ADCS of small satellites with low precision sensors. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed filter, the UKF is also employed to compare it with the CDPF. Numerical simulations show that the proposed CDPF is more effective and robust in dealing with model errors and low precision sensors compared with the UKF or traditional PF.     

飞行校验系统GPS/DGPS定位及排故分析

飞行校验对保证各类导航设备的精度符合性至关重要,完成飞行校验的核心部件是机载飞行校验系统,其中的飞机实时定位分系统对校验结果产生重要影响。本文对当前校验系统中较常用的定位手段及故障隔离案例进行分析。     

IDENTIFICATION OF GYRO DRIFTS UNDER THREE AXIS ATTITUDE COUPLING

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风洞试验模型技术新发展

风洞模型试验是航空航天飞行器研制的重要环节之一。试验模型的设计制造关系到风洞试验的数据质量、效率、周期和成本。本文归纳了近年来国外风洞模型技术的最新发展,分析了快速成型技术在风洞试验模型制造中的发展和应用;阐述了欧、美遥控风洞模型技术的发展理念、关键技术和应用研究;概述了风洞试验模型采用的新材料、抑振和变形测量技术。