Optimal crater landmark selection based on optical navigation performance factors for planetary landing

Planetary craters are natural navigation landmarks that widely exist and are easily observed. Optical navigation based on crater landmarks has become an important autonomous navigation method for planetary landing. Due to the increase in observed crater landmarks and the limitation of onboard computation, the selection of good crater landmarks has gradually become a research hotspot in the field of landmark-based optical navigation. This paper designs a fast crater landmark selection method, which not only considers the configuration observability of crater subsets but also focuses on the influence on navigation performance arising from the measurement uncertainty and the matching confidence of craters, which is different from other landmark selection methods. The factor of measurement uncertainty, which is anisotropic, correlated and nonidentically distributed, is quantified and integrated into selection based on crater pairing detection and localization error evaluation. In addition, the concept of the crater matching confidence factor is introduced, which reflects the possibility of 2D projection measurements corresponding to 3D positions. Combined with the configuration observability factor, the crater landmark selection indicator is formed. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by Monte Carlo simulations.     

基于点云深度学习的对称结构空间目标相对位姿测量

针对对称结构空间目标相对位姿解算过程中点云误匹配带来的误差问题，提出一种基于点云深度学习的对称结构空间目标相对位姿测量方法。首先设计空间目标点云特征提取网络及关键点回归网络，将位姿测量问题转换为空间目标点云关键点回归问题，通过两个并行的回归网络分别输出空间目标平移向量和具有固定标签的目标点云三维边界框角点；其次利用具有连续稳定标签的角点求解目标姿态，可有效解决目标的对称结构导致的点云误配准问题；最后通过仿真数据集的实验表明，该方法相比于传统的点云配准方法有更高的准确率，能够精确求解具有对称结构的空间目标相对位姿。     

基于注意力机制和特征匹配的空对地多目标检测与跟踪算法

多目标跟踪算法是实现无人机自主导航的关键技术，为解决现有方法存在的小目标检测能力弱、计算能耗大、鲁棒性差等问题，提出一种基于注意力机制和特征匹配的多目标空对地跟踪算法，以实现航拍视角下对目标的精准高效跟踪。首先，引入通道可分离卷积，实现目标检测模型的轻量化；其次，构造融合空间注意力机制的小目标检测分支，提高对小微目标的检测精度，最后，优化目标跟踪算法的外观重识别网络，提高多目标跟踪效率。使用Visdrone2019-MOT数据集对所提算法进行验证，实验结果表明，所提算法的MOTA值提高了0.６%，FPS值为21.31帧/s，在模型大小和跟踪精度上实现了较好的平衡。     

Optimum alternate material selection methodology for an aircraft skin

Weight penalty has been a challenge for design engineers of aerospace vehicles. Today’s high-efficiency combat aircraft undergoes intense stress and strain during flying missions, which require stronger and stiffer materials to retain structural integrity. Though metallic materials have been successfully used for the construction of aircraft structures and components, metals still have a low strength-to-weight ratio. This paper aims to develop an alternate optimised material selection methodolog...