Autonomous optical navigation of Mars probe aided by one-way Doppler measurements in capture stage

doi:10.23919/JSEE.2020.000036

Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2020, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (3): 602-611.doi: 10.23919/JSEE.2020.000036

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Autonomous optical navigation of Mars probe aided by one-way Doppler measurements in capture stage

Zhibin ZHANG^1,²(), Haibo JI^1,*(), Jie YANG²()

¹ School of Information and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
² State Key Laboratory of Astronautics Dynamics, Xi'an Satellite Control Center, Xi'an 710043, China

Received:2019-05-21 Online:2020-06-30 Published:2020-06-30
Contact: Haibo JI E-mail:BrownPKU@aliyun.com;jihb@ustc.edu.cn;nudtyang@163.com
About author:ZHANG Zhibin was born in 1975. He received his B.S. degree from Peking University in 1997 and M.E. degree in 2013 from University of Science and Technology of China, respectively. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree at University of Science and Technology of China. He is now a professor at State Key Laboratory of Astronautics Dynamics. His research interests include navigation guidance and control of spacecraft. E-mail: BrownPKU@aliyun.com|JI Haibo was born in 1964. He received his B.S. degree from Zhejiang University in 1984 and Ph.D. degree in 1990 from Peking University, respectively. He is now a professor at University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests include nonlinear systems and control, and guidance and control of aerial vehicles. E-mail: jihb@ustc.edu.cn|YANG Jie was born in 1985. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in navigation, guidance and control from National University of Defense Techno-logy in 2007 and 2013 respectively. From 2013 to 2019, he was with the State Key Laboratory of Astronautic Dynamics as a research assistant. His research interests include the spacecraft orbit determination, multi-target tracking and identification, and inertial-based integrated navigation. E-mail: nudtyang@163.com
Supported by:
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61273090);This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61273090)

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The optical navigation errors of Mars probe in the capture stage depend closely on which targets are selected to be observed in the Mars system. As for this problem, an integrated navigation scheme is proposed wherein the optical observation is aided by one-way Doppler measurements. The errors are then analyzed respectively for the optical observation and one-way Doppler measurements. The real-time calculating scheme which exploits the extended Kalman filter (EKF) framework is designed for the integrated navigation. The simulation tests demonstrate that the errors of optical navigation, which select the Mars moon as the observation target, are relatively smaller than those in the Mars-orientation optical navigation case. On one hand, the integrated navigation errors do not depend on the selecting pattern of optical observation targets. On the other hand, the integrated navigation errors are significantly reduced as compared with those in the optical-alone autonomous navigation mode.

Key words: Mars probe, autonomous navigation, one-way Doppler measurement, optical observation, capture stage

Zhibin ZHANG, Haibo JI, Jie YANG. Autonomous optical navigation of Mars probe aided by one-way Doppler measurements in capture stage[J]. Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2020, 31(3): 602-611.

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Direction	Position/m	Velocity/(m/s)
$X$	787 428 868.181	-2 902.862 031
$Y$	173 430 495.575	-657.767 255
$Z$	175 327 556.844	-624.561 085

Observing target	Position error/km				Velocity error/(m/s)
Observing target	Radial	Tangential	Normal	Total	Radial	Tangential	Normal	Total
Phobos	5.958	7.289	0.361	9.422	0.206	0.207	0.016	0.293
Phobos+Doppler	6.788	6.977	0.375	9.741	0.061	0.206	0.015	0.216
Deimos	4.369	7.819	1.171	9.033	0.201	0.195	0.009	0.281
Deimos+Doppler	6.683	7.359	0.863	9.978	0.061	0.211	0.007	0.219
Mars	175.992	7.193	0.434	176.139	3.876	0.651	0.017	3.931
Mars+Doppler	12.446	7.472	0.226	14.518	0.063	0.212	0.014	0.222

Observing target	Position error/km				Velocity error/(m/s)
Observing target	Radial	Tangential	Normal	Total	Radial	Tangential	Normal	Total
Phobos	53.074	72.416	3.864	89.865	1.448	2.102	0.144	2.557
Phobos+Doppler	22.104	70.888	3.504	74.337	0.665	2.073	0.181	2.184
Deimos	48.842	77.765	11.773	92.583	1.838	1.962	0.089	2.689
Deimos+Doppler	14.871	77.413	7.074	79.145	0.659	2.098	0.093	2.201
Mars	354.891	71.489	4.584	362.048	4.589	2.737	0.154	5.346
Mars+Doppler	27.948	74.137	2.915	79.284	0.663	2.097	0.124	2.203

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