Lightweight hybrid visual-inertial odometry with closed-form zero velocity update

Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) fuses measurements from camera and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) to achieve accumulative performance that is better than using individual sensors. Hybrid VIO is an extended Kalman filter-based solution which augments features with long tracking length into the state vector of Multi-State Constraint Kalman Filter (MSCKF). In this paper, a novel hybrid VIO is proposed, which focuses on utilizing low-cost sensors while also considering both the computational efficiency and positioning precision. The proposed algorithm introduces several novel contributions. Firstly, by deducing an analytical error transition equation, one-dimensional inverse depth parametrization is utilized to parametrize the augmented feature state. This modification is shown to significantly improve the computational efficiency and numerical robustness, as a result achieving higher precision. Secondly, for better handling of the static scene, a novel closed-form Zero velocity UPdaTe (ZUPT) method is proposed. ZUPT is modeled as a measurement update for the filter rather than forbidding propagation roughly, which has the advantage of correcting the overall state through correlation in the filter covariance matrix. Furthermore, online spatial and temporal calibration is also incorporated. Experiments are conducted on both public dataset and real data. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed solution by showing that its performance is better than the baseline and the state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of both efficiency and precision. A related software is open-sourced to benefit the community.^①     

Inter-satellite calibration of FengYun 3 medium energy electron fluxes with POES electron measurements

We perform an L-shell dependent inter-satellite calibration of FengYun 3 medium energy electron measurements with POES measurements based on rough orbital conjunctions within 5?min?×?0.1?L?×?0.5 MLT. By comparing electron flux data between the U.S. Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites (POES) and Chinese sun-synchronous satellites including FY-3B and FY-3C for a whole year of 2014, we attempt to remove less reliable data and evaluate systematic uncertainties associated with the FY-3B and FY-3C datasets, expecting to quantify the inter-satellite calibration factors for the 150–350?keV energy channel at L?=?2–7. Compared to the POES data, the FY-3B and FY-3C data generally exhibit a similar trend of electron flux variations but more or less underestimate them within a factor of 5 for the medium electron energy 150–350?keV channel. Good consistency in the flux conjunctions after the inter-calibration procedures gives us certain confidence to generalize our method to calibrate electron flux measurements from various satellite instruments.     

GOCE star tracker attitude quaternion calibration and combination

We analyse the inter-boresight angles (IBA) measured by the star trackers on board the GOCE satellite and find that they exhibit small offsets of 7–9″ with respect to the ones calculated from the rotation of the star tracker reference frames to the satellite reference frame. Further, we find small variations in the offsets with a peak-to-peak amplitude of up to 8″, which correlate with variations of the star trackers’ temperatures. Motivated by these findings, we present a method for combining the attitude quaternions measured by two or more star trackers that includes an estimation of relative attitude offsets between star trackers as a linear function of temperature. The method was used to correct and combine the star tracker attitude quaternions within the reprocessing of GOCE data performed in 2018. We demonstrate that the IBA calculated from the corrected star tracker attitude quaternions show no significant offsets with respect to the reference frame information. Finally, we show that neglecting the star tracker attitude offsets in the processing would result in perturbations in the gravity gradients that are visible at frequencies below 2?mHz and have a magnitude of up to 90?mE. The presented method avoids such perturbations to a large extent.     

嫦娥五号探测器多舱段间接力式校时及误差控制方法

为优化嫦娥五号探测器操控,达到通过给任意具备测控链路的舱段校时即可实现多舱段组合体时间同步的目标,提出了一种接力式校时及误差控制方法。该方法通过相邻舱段间接力式时间传递实现舱段间时间自流动。设计了基于飞行模式的时间基准设备检索方法,通过统一的检索配置表使各设备能够根据飞行模式识别上级时间基准设备,实现了各舱段的自主校时。设计了总线控制器(Bus controller,BC)与远置单元(Remote terminal,RT)间的分布式时间传递误差控制方法,BC端修正时间信息发送时产生的误差,RT端控制时间信息接收时引入的误差,保证了整器时统精度。研究方法实现了多舱段复杂航天器的器内自组织时统,已在嫦娥五号探测器上得到应用并取得预期效果,可为后续航天器软件设计提供参考。     

航空发动机低压涡轮出口温度标定方法

在航空发动机试车过程中,针对数字电子控制器采集低压涡轮出口燃气温度(T6)高于试车台数采系统采集值的现象,进行了多轮测温试验,并结合T6测温原理、热电偶及补偿导线电气特性等,提出了从数字电子控制器电路板终端进行温度标定的方法,以确保在发动机实际试车过程中控制器测量的T6值更接近真实温度.试验结果表明:在航空发动机试车中采用在数字电子控制器T6采集电路板的补偿导线终端进行标定的方法后,由数字电子控制器与试车台数采系统采集的T6值相差1℃以内,证明该标定方法准确可行.     

(70~100)MeV准单能中子参考辐射场设计

国内基于串列加速器建立了144keV~15MeV的单能中子参考辐射场，解决了20MeV以下能区中子探测器注量、剂量等参数的量值溯源，但尚未建立20MeV以上能区准单能中子参考辐射场。随着航天空间中子探测任务的需要以及地面高能质子加速器的发展，20MeV以上能区准单能中子参考辐射场需求越来越突出。发展20MeV以上能区高能中子参考辐射场对于满足国防需求、推动中子计量学科发展具有重要意义。     

Extrinsic calibration of a laser displacement sensor in a non-contact coordinate measuring machine

In order to implement 3D scanning of those complicated parts such as blades in the aviation field,a non-contact optical measuring system is established in the paper,which integrates a laser displacement sensor,a probe head,the frame of a coordinate measuring machine (CMM),etc.As the output of the laser sensor directly obtained possesses the 1D length of the laser beam,it needs to determine the unit direction vector of the laser beam denoted as (l,m,n) by calibration so as to convert the 1D values into 3D coordinates of target points.Therefore,an extrinsic calibration method based on a standard sphere is proposed to accomplish this task in the paper.During the calibration procedure,the laser sensor moves along with the motion of the CMM and gathers the required data on the spherical surface.Then,both the output of the laser sensor and the grating readings of the CMM are substituted into the constraint equation of the spherical surface,in which an over-determined nonlinear equation group containing unknown parameters is established.For the purpose of solving the equation group,a method based on non-linear least squares optimization is put forward.Finally,the system after calibration is utilized to measure the diameter of a metallic sphere 10 times from different orientations to verify the calibration accuracy.In the experiment,the errors between the measured results and the true values are all smaller than 0.03 mm,which manifests the validity and practicality of the extrinsic calibration method presented in the paper.     

工业 S型热电偶1100℃以上温度点校准方法

越来越多的单位要求对工业S型热电偶1100℃以上温度点进行校准，但目前没有任何技术规范可供参考。本文就这一需求提供了三种解决方案，并对这三个方案的校准结果及不确定度进行对比分析，为计量机构根据客户的需求制定科学合理的校准方案提供参考。     

基于直线成像特征的视觉测量系统综合标定方法

针对视觉测量系统存在复杂系统误差的特点,提出一种基于直线成像特征的系统综合标定方法,有效地保证了测量精度.该方法通过对1等量块的平行直线边缘提取,建立量块边缘空间物点位置和像点位置的原始对应关系,利用量块边缘的理想直线特征,通过统计计算对测量系统进行综合标定,建立描述空间物点位置和像点位置的相互对应关系的二元三次标定函数.对在测量范围内不同方位的量块进行多次测量,表明使用这种标定方法标定的视觉测量系统的测量精度能够达到.     

高精度卫星光学遥感器辐射定标技术

随着长期气候变化等观测新需求和高分辨对地观测等新手段的发展,空间光学仪器面临进一步提高辐射定标精度的要求。文章从空间光学仪器定标精度的制约因素和全过程定标的实现等方面,分析了国际相关领域的技术进展,并就新型定标技术的研究和应用提出建议与展望。