将星空定向转为离散分类,提升航天器导航精度与效率
Star-Fusion: A Multi-modal Transformer Architecture for Discrete Celestial Orientation via Spherical Topology
- 把星空方向估计转为球面分区分类,避免坐标绕环误差
- 在模拟数据上达93.4%准确率,推理仅需18.4毫秒
- 适合资源受限的卫星实时部署,尤其适用于星座系统
可靠的天体姿态确定是自主航天器导航的关键需求,但传统‘失向’(Lost-in-Space, LIS)算法常因计算开销大且对传感器噪声敏感而受限。尽管深度学习展现出潜力,但标准回归模型易受赤经(RA)和赤纬(Dec)的非欧几里得球面拓扑与周期边界条件干扰。本文提出Star-Fusion,一种多模态架构,将姿态估计重构为离散拓扑分类任务。该方法采用球面K-Means聚类将天球划分为K个拓扑一致区域,有效缓解坐标绕环问题。模型采用三路融合策略:SwinV2-Tiny Transformer主干提取光度特征,卷积热图分支提供空间定位,坐标式MLP实现几何锚定。在基于依巴谷星表生成的合成数据集上,Star-Fusion实现Top-1准确率93.4%,Top-3准确率97.8%。此外,模型在资源受限的商用现成硬件上推理延迟仅为18.4毫秒,具备实时机载部署潜力,适用于下一代卫星星座。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reliable celestial attitude determination is a critical requirement for autonomous spacecraft navigation, yet traditional "Lost-in-Space" (LIS) algorithms often suffer from high computational overhead and sensitivity to sensor-induced noise. While deep learning has emerged as a promising alternative, standard regression models are often confounded by the non-Euclidean topology of the celestial sphere and by the periodic boundary conditions of Right Ascension (RA) and Declination (Dec). In this paper, we present Star-Fusion, a multi-modal architecture that reformulates orientation estimation as a discrete topological classification task. Our approach leverages spherical K-Means clustering to partition the celestial sphere into K topologically consistent regions, effectively mitigating coordinate wrapping artifacts. The proposed architecture employs a tripartite fusion strategy: a SwinV2-Tiny transformer backbone for photometric feature extraction, a convolutional heatmap branch for spatial grounding, and a coordinate-based MLP for geometric anchoring. Experimental evaluations on a synthetic Hipparcos-derived dataset demonstrate that Star-Fusion achieves a Top-1 accuracy of 93.4% and a Top-3 accuracy of 97.8%. Furthermore, the model exhibits high computational efficiency, maintaining an inference latency of 18.4 ms on resource-constrained COTS hardware, making it a viable candidate for real-time onboard deployment in next-generation satellite constellations.
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