Stray light lessons learned from the Mars reconnaissance orbiter's optical navigation camera

Lowman, Andrew E.; Stauder, John L.

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“…Particularly, our paper focuses on one of the observational methods of OCN that is called Stellar Light Distance Angle (SLDA) because this observation has been put into use in several deep space spacecraft navigations (Lowman and Stauder 2004). SLDA is the angle between two light rays of celestial bodies observed from sensors such as navigation camera on board the spacecraft.…”

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Mars Cruise Orbit Determination from Combined Optical Celestial Techniques and X-ray Pulsars

2017

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The precise autonomous navigation for deep space exploration by combination of multi-source observation data is a key issue for probe control and scientific applications. In this paper, the performance of an integrated Optical Celestial Navigation (OCN) and X-ray Pulsars Autonomous Navigation (XNAV) system is investigated for the orbit of Mars Pathfinder. Firstly, OCN and XNAV single systems are realised by an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF). Secondly, the integrated system is simulated with a Federated Kalman Filter (FKF), which can do the information fusion of the two subsystems of UKF and inherits the advantages of each subsystem. Thirdly, the performance of our system is evaluated by analysing the relationship between observation errors and navigation accuracy. The results of the simulation experiments show that the biases between the nominal and our calculated orbit are within 5 km in all three axes under complex error conditions. This accuracy is also better than current ground-based techniques.

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Mars Cruise Orbit Determination from Combined Optical Celestial Techniques and X-ray Pulsars

2017

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“…In the Galileo case [2], due to antenna deployment failure, some autonomy has become mandatory for the vision based navigation to limit the data to be transmitted to Earth for each picture, and most of the IP tasks were performed on-board. On MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter), a navigation camera was embarked as passenger experiment, and took pictures of Mars' Moons Phobos and Deimos on stars background between 30 days and 2 days before orbit insertion [4]. The aim was to demonstrate that such technique could be used for future Mars missions to ensure accurate delivery manoeuvres.…”

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Space optical navigation techniques: an overview

Rebordão¹

2013

SPIE Proceedings

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Optical or vision-based navigation is an enabling technology for satellite autonomous navigation associated to different navigation approaches such as cruising, fly-by, terrain relative navigation, landing, rendezvous and docking between spacecrafts, rigidity of multi-satellite constellations. Since 2001, in many different ESA projects, the author and his team (at INETI and currently at FCUL) have been associated to most of the developments of the optical components of autonomous navigation, in cooperation with space primes or GNC subsystems suppliers.A unique experience related to seemingly simple photonic concepts associated to computational vision, photonic noises, camera tradeoffs and system concepts has emerged, and deserves a synthesis especially because some of these concepts are being implemented in the ESA Proba 3 mission and ESA is currently updating the technology in view of forthcoming planetary missions to Jupiter, Jupiter moons and asteroids. It is important to note that the US have already flown several missions relying on autonomous navigation and that NASA experience is at least one decade old.System approaches, sources of difficulty, some tradeoffs in both (and between) hardware and software, critical interface issues between the imaging and GNC (Guidance, Navigation and Control) subsystems, image processing techniques, utilization of apriori or to be estimated information, uncertainties, simulation of the imaging chain and non-cooperative environments will be addressed synthetically for both passive (optical) and active (lidar) systems.

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“…目前, 火星探测器导航研究主要集中在天文测角导航 [4] . 2005年, 美国发射了火星勘测轨道器(MRO), 在此次任务中首次真正实现了完全自主的基于目标及背景恒星的自主导航 [5,6] . 欧空局近年来也在积极研究基于天文角度信息的自主导航技术, 并实现了地面验证 [7] .…”

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“…我国在2020年首次火星探测任务"天问一号"中也明确指出, 需要发展基于火星和火卫角度信息的火星探测器自主导航技术. 对于环绕段导航任务而言, 火卫一(Phobos)和火卫二(Deimos)是可用的导航源 [5] .…”

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Mars orbiter integrated navigation algorithm for angle and range measurement based on federal UPF

Chen¹,

Zhang²,

Wei³

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Sci. Sin.-Tech.

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Stray light lessons learned from the Mars reconnaissance orbiter's optical navigation camera

Cited by 6 publications

References 2 publications

Mars Cruise Orbit Determination from Combined Optical Celestial Techniques and X-ray Pulsars

Mars Cruise Orbit Determination from Combined Optical Celestial Techniques and X-ray Pulsars

Space optical navigation techniques: an overview

Mars orbiter integrated navigation algorithm for angle and range measurement based on federal UPF

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