Selection and planning of asteroids for deep space autonomous optical navigation

  • Wen Ming Xu*
  • , Hu Tao Cui
  • , Ping Yuan Cui
  • , Yu Fei Liu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A key technology that facilitates the autonomy of the spacecraft is to realize the autonomous optical navigation, in which the selection of the navigation signpost and asteroids and the planning of the photoing sequence are important matters. This paper proposes criterions, including visible magnitude, distance, relative velocity and angle of sight lines, on selection of asteroids, based on the trajectory scheme of exploring Ivar. Then navigation asteroids are selected under a integral evaluation. The planning of the photoing sequence is handled with an improved genetic algorithm, along with a difference selection method which optimizes the ratio of navigation evaluation to resource consumption. Simulation result indicates that this method is valid to select navigation asteroids and plan the photoing sequence.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)891-896
Number of pages6
JournalHangkong Xuebao/Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica
Volume28
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2007
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Asteroids selection and planning
  • Autonomous optical navigation
  • Difference selection method
  • Genetic algorithm

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