arXiv:2504.01835astro-ph.IMastro-ph.EP2025-04

提出一种抗望远镜安装偏差的自主光学导航算法,提升探测器飞越小行星时的精度与效率。

Autonomous optical navigation for DESTINY+: Enhancing misalignment robustness in flyby observations with a rotating telescope

  • 同步估计望远镜偏差与航天器轨道,用无迹卡尔曼滤波处理非线性问题。
  • 仿真验证显示该方法在允许安装误差下仍能保持高导航精度。
  • 适合对操作效率要求高的深空飞越任务,如日本隼鸟系列探测器。

DESTINY+是日本宇宙航空研究开发机构(JAXA)计划中的中型探测任务,将飞越包括Phaethon在内的多个小行星。作为飞越观测仪器,探测器搭载了可单轴旋转的望远镜TCAP,在飞越过程中用于追踪目标。以往飞越任务中,此类旋转望远镜也用作自主光学导航相机。为避免导航精度下降,以往任务需在导航前完成相机对准校准,但此过程耗时长且限制操作序列。针对这一问题,DESTINY+团队研究了允许望远镜存在对准偏差以降低操作成本的可行性。本文提出一种对旋转望远镜安装偏差鲁棒的自主光学导航算法:同时估计望远镜偏差与航天器相对目标的轨道。由于偏差与观测值之间存在强非线性,采用无迹卡尔曼滤波(UKF),而非以往广泛使用的扩展卡尔曼滤波(EKF)。通过在个人电脑上进行数值仿真及硬件在环仿真,以DESTINY+任务中飞越Phaethon为例进行了验证。结果表明,该方法能在合理计算开销下有效缓解因安装偏差导致的导航精度下降,满足星载计算机运行需求。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

DESTINY+ is an upcoming JAXA Epsilon medium-class mission to flyby multiple asteroids including Phaethon. As an asteroid flyby observation instrument, a telescope mechanically capable of single-axis rotation, named TCAP, is mounted on the spacecraft to track and observe the target asteroids during flyby. As in past flyby missions utilizing rotating telescopes, TCAP is also used as a navigation camera for autonomous optical navigation during the closest-approach phase. To mitigate the degradation of the navigation accuracy, past missions performed calibration of the navigation camera's alignment before starting optical navigation. However, such calibration requires significant operational time to complete and imposes constraints on the operation sequence. From the above background, the DESTINY+ team has studied the possibility of reducing operational costs by allowing TCAP alignment errors to remain. This paper describes an autonomous optical navigation algorithm robust to the misalignment of rotating telescopes, proposed in this context. In the proposed method, the misalignment of the telescope is estimated simultaneously with the spacecraft's orbit relative to the flyby target. To deal with the nonlinearity between the misalignment and the observation value, the proposed method utilizes the unscented Kalman filter, instead of the extended Kalman filter widely used in past studies. The proposed method was evaluated with numerical simulations on a PC and with hardware-in-the-loop simulation, taking the Phaethon flyby in the DESTINY+ mission as an example. The validation results suggest that the proposed method can mitigate the misalignment-induced degradation of the optical navigation accuracy with reasonable computational costs suited for onboard computers.

自主导航深空探测轨道估计卡尔曼滤波

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