基于搜索空间变换和序优化的预警星座设计

高轨预警星座由若干颗地球静止轨道卫星和大椭圆轨道卫星组成,星座优化的目标是满足重点监视区域的覆盖和提高覆盖区域的定位精度。对于覆盖性优化,根据多个监视区域的威胁等级,星座系统需要提供不同的覆盖重数;对于定位精度优化,系统在立体观测和单星观测情况下存在很大差异。因此高轨预警星座优化是一个复杂多区域多目标优化问题。针对以上难点,提出了多层次多目标优化模型,可以较完整合理地描述预警星座优化问题;在优化模型求解方面,将优化计算分为覆盖性优化和定位精度优化两个环节;在覆盖性优化环节,提出了基于搜索空间变换的覆盖性快速优化方法,提高了Pareto最优解的计算速度和准确性。在定位精度优化环节,采用序优化方法进一步缩短优化时间。仿真试验表明,该方法可设计出满足预警任务需求的星座,且优化耗时在1 min以内,能有效地缩短预警星座优化时间。     

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.     

Optimization of communication network topology for navigation sharing among distributed satellites

Navigation sharing among distributed satellites is quite important for coordinated motion and collision avoidance. This paper proposes optimization methods of the communication network topology to achieve navigation sharing. The whole communication network constructing by inter-satellite links are considered as a topology graph. The aim of this paper is to find the communication network topology with minimum communication connections’ number (MCCN) in different conditions. It has found that the communication capacity and the number of channels are two key parameters affecting the results. The model of MCCN topology for navigation sharing is established and corresponding method is designed. Two main scenarios, viz., homogeneous case and heterogeneous case, are considered. For the homogeneous case where each member has the same communication capacity, it designs a construction method (Algorithm 1) to find the MCCN topology. For the heterogeneous case, it introduces a modified genetic algorithm (Algorithm 2) to find the MCCN topology. When considering the fact that the number of channels is limited, the Algorithm 2 is further modified by adding a penalized term in the fitness function. The effectiveness of these algorithms is all proved in theoretical. Three examples are further tested to illustrate the methods developed in this paper.     

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     

航天器扫描镜成像位置误差补偿技术

研究地球静止轨道航天器两自由度扫描镜成像位置误差补偿问题,即通过对扫描角的补偿,使光轴在地球表面的成像点位置与标称位置相同,消除探测区域的位置偏差.在考虑扫描镜法线偏移、姿态偏差以及轨道误差条件下,推导了光轴成像点的地心经纬度计算公式.给出了上述3类误差的具体描述方式,并分析了各种误差对光轴成像点位置的影响关系.基于角度误差的小量假设条件,给出了扫描镜的步进角/扫描角补偿量的显式算法.针对法线偏移信息一般难以准确测量的问题,提出了一种利用扫描镜在特定工作模式下的光轴惯性空间定向能力和法线偏移的长周期特性对其进行估计的方法.仿真结果表明,所提出的补偿方案和算法能够显著提高成像点位置精度.