A dimension reduced INS/VNS integrated navigation method for planetary rovers

Inertial navigation system/visual navigation system (INS/VNS) integrated navigation is a commonly used autonomous navigation method for planetary rovers. Since visual measurements are related to the previous and current state vectors (position and attitude) of planetary rovers, the performance of the Kalman filter (KF) will be challenged by the time-correlation problem. A state augmentation method, which augments the previous state value to the state vector, is commonly used when dealing with this problem. However, the augmenting of state dimensions will result in an increase in computation load. In this paper, a state dimension reduced INS/VNS integrated nav-igation method based on coordinates of feature points is presented that utilizes the information obtained through INS/VNS integrated navigation at a previous moment to overcome the time rel-evance problem and reduce the dimensions of the state vector. Equations of extended Kalman filter (EKF) are used to demonstrate the equivalence of calculated results between the proposed method and traditional state augmented methods. Results of simulation and experimentation indicate that this method has less computational load but similar accuracy when compared with traditional methods.     

视觉导航技术的发展

近20年来视觉导航技术发展迅速,在原理方法与技术实现上取得了重要突破,规模化应用已经成为可能。以视觉导航中光流、视觉里程计、视觉同步定位与地图构建等主流研究方向为对象,对其发展概况、基本原理、技术优势与难点等进行了简要介绍与分析,并从近期应用推广及长远发展角度对视觉及视觉组合导航技术进行了展望。     

半球谐振陀螺研究现状与发展趋势

半球谐振陀螺是基于哥氏效应测量角速度的新型固态陀螺,具有结构简单、精度高、功耗低、寿命长、可靠性好、抗空间辐射等优点,是捷联惯性导航系统的理想陀螺仪,在宇航领域具有独特的应用优势。半球谐振陀螺的理论精度不受量子尺寸效应限制,是高精度、微型化陀螺的重要发展方向之一。首先介绍了半球谐振陀螺的基本工作原理,其次介绍了半球谐振陀螺的发展历程,综述了半球谐振陀螺的国内外研究现状,最后对半球谐振陀螺的发展趋势进行了展望。     

直接敏感地平的空天飞行器惯性/天文组合方法

传统的惯性/天文位置组合导航系统中,由于天文定位观测输出耦合了水平观测平台基准误差,往往存在系统噪声与量测噪声不完全独立的问题.针对此问题,分析了利用天文观测量修正惯性系下陀螺漂移的原理,提出了一种直接敏感地平进行天文解析定位及组合滤波的空天飞行器自主导航定位方案,并建立了相应的组合滤波模型.所提出的方法采用星敏感器和陀螺仪构造惯性基准,并在此基础上进行基于红外地平仪的天文定位解算,最后进行惯性/天文组合定位.该方案充分利用了星光敏感器在惯性系下姿态测量精度高的优点,并使惯性/天文组合定位滤波中状态噪声和观测噪声完全独立,仿真结果验证了该定位方法的有效性.     

Autonomous navigation of Mars probe using X-ray pulsars: Modeling and results

Autonomous navigation of Mars probe is a main challenge due to the lack of dense ground tracking network measurements. In this paper, autonomous navigation of the Mars probe Orbits is investigated using the X-ray pulsars. A group of X-ray pulsars with high ranging accuracy are selected based on their properties and an adaptive extended Kalman filter is developed to incorporate the Mars probe dynamics and pulsar-based ranging measurements. Results of numerical experiment show that the three-dimensional positioning accuracy can achieve 750m in X-axis, 220m in Y-axis and 230m in Z-axis, which is much better than the positioning results by current Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) or Doppler observations with the accuracy of 150 km or several kilometers, respectively.     

粒子滤波及其在航天器交会对接相对导航中的应用

在全面分析粒子滤波原理的基础上,提出一种改进高斯粒子滤波方法.该方法利用确定性采样滤波算法进行时间更新,替代高斯粒子滤波算法中的随机采样过程;另外,针对厚尾噪声情况,利用鲁棒统计方法对确定性采样滤波方法进行鲁棒性改进,并将其应用于所提出的改进高斯粒子滤波.将粒子滤波算法应用于交会对接相对导航问题,仿真结果表明,在多种测量噪声情况下,改进高斯粒子滤波较其他粒子滤波,能够在不过多损失估计精度的同时有效降低计算量.文中的研究成果为将粒子滤波应用于航天器导航问题提供了理论参考.     

基于四路信号处理的载波锁相环

载波跟踪环是独立导航接收机中最为脆弱的部分,在一定载噪比下,影响载波跟踪环跟踪门限的主要因素是动态应力。科斯塔斯锁相环是最常用的载波跟踪环之一,由于频率牵引范围的限制,其对动态应力非常敏感,该频率牵引范围由最大相位牵引范围决定。传统科斯塔斯锁相环是基于两路信号处理进行载波相位锁定的,其相位牵入范围仅为［-π/2,π/2］。文章提出了一种基于四路信号处理的科斯塔斯锁相环,增加的两路信号分别与原来两路相位相差π/4,其相位牵入范围可以达到［-3π/4,3π/4］,较传统方式提高了1/2。仿真结果显示文中提出的设计方法能够明显提高环路的动态性能     

深空自主导航光学敏感器及其验证

利用光学导航敏感器进行深空自主导航在国际上已成为一种发展趋势,这种方法具有自主性强、精度高、节约成本等优点,且距离地球越远越显优势.在国内首次开展了用于深空巡航段的自主光学导航敏感器设计研制和验证工作,所研制的光学导航敏感器原型样机设计技术指标为:焦距953.8mm,视场角0.8°×0.8°,探测极限灵敏度12Mv,测量精度0.5″(1σ),动态范围100∶1.试验室测试和外场观星试验的结果表明,测量精度达到0.5″(1σ),探测极限灵敏度达到12.5Mv,技术指标全部满足要求.     

On the observability of Mars entry navigation using radiometric measurements

A thorough observability analysis of the Mars entry navigation using radiometric measurements from ground based beacons is performed. This analysis involves the evaluation of the Fisher information matrix which is derived from the maximum likelihood estimation. A series of navigation cases with multiple beacons are investigated, and both range and range-rate measurements are considered. The determinant of Fisher information matrix is used to quantify the observability of navigation system, while the trace of Fisher information matrix is used to determine the lower-bound of estimation errors. For one and two beacon cases, the navigation system is unobservable. However, the eigenvectors of Fisher information matrix give the observable and unobservable component. When three or more beacon measurements are employed, the states of entry vehicle become observable. Some valuable analytic conclusions on the relationship between the geometric configuration of beacons and observability are obtained consequently. Finally, simulation results from two navigation examples indicate that our effort is useful for understanding and assessing the observability of the Mars entry navigation using radiometric measurements.     

火星着陆自主导航方案研究进展

火星着陆导航技术是火星着陆过程的核心技术之一。围绕火星着陆环境特点与导航技术遇到的挑战,分析了目前火星着陆过程的导航能力和自主导航的发展趋势,并针对火星着陆过程的特殊性和导航需求,概述了火星着陆过程各阶段自主导航方案的研究现状与进展。进而从导航方案设计与配置、导航模型建立与仿真、导航方案性能分析等方面,对自主导航方案的最新研究进展进行了分析,并在火星着陆全过程自主导航方案综合仿真的基础上,获得了满足火星定点着陆要求的各阶段交接点应满足的导航精度。最后,基于目前技术现状和发展趋势,提出了构建"递进式三阶段"火星着陆自主导航方案的设想,可为未来火星着陆自主导航方案的设计与论证提供参考。