用地球自转作真实值,量化事件相机星跟踪精度。
Quantifying Accuracy of an Event-Based Star Tracker via Earth's Rotation
- 以地球自转为参考,分析事件相机的星跟踪姿态估计。
- 定位误差均方根达18.47角秒,最大误差78.84角秒。
- 适合低延迟、低成本星跟踪系统研发者参考。
事件相机(EBCs)是星跟踪姿态确定的新兴技术,但以往研究难以获取真实数据的精确真值。本文利用地球运动作为对比基准,分析事件相机星跟踪系统的精度。地球自转规律性强,不规则性可测至毫角秒级别。通过将事件相机固定并经地面望远镜对准夜空,系统在天球参考系中的唯一运动即为地球自转。由此产生的事件流被处理以生成姿态估计,并与国际地球旋转与参考系统(IERS)测量的地球姿态进行比对。结果表明,该系统在姿态估计上的均方根误差为18.47角秒,最大误差达78.84角秒。结合事件相机相比帧式传感器的优势(更稀疏的数据流降低计算量、更高动态范围、更低功耗、更快更新率),这一精度水平证明其在低成本、低延迟星跟踪中的实用性。所有代码与数据已公开:https://gitlab.kitware.com/nest-public/telescope_accuracy_quantification。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Event-based cameras (EBCs) are a promising new technology for star tracking-based attitude determination, but prior studies have struggled to determine accurate ground truth for real data. We analyze the accuracy of an EBC star tracking system utilizing the Earth's motion as the ground truth for comparison. The Earth rotates in a regular way with very small irregularities which are measured to the level of milli-arcseconds. By keeping an event camera static and pointing it through a ground-based telescope at the night sky, we create a system where the only camera motion in the celestial reference frame is that induced by the Earth's rotation. The resulting event stream is processed to generate estimates of orientation which we compare to the International Earth Rotation and Reference System (IERS) measured orientation of the Earth. The event camera system is able to achieve a root mean squared across error of 18.47 arcseconds and an about error of 78.84 arcseconds. Combined with the other benefits of event cameras over framing sensors (reduced computation due to sparser data streams, higher dynamic range, lower energy consumption, faster update rates), this level of accuracy suggests the utility of event cameras for low-cost and low-latency star tracking. We provide all code and data used to generate our results: https://gitlab.kitware.com/nest-public/telescope_accuracy_quantification.
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