Stereo Vision-Based Relative Navigation Algorithm for Satellites Formation Flying

Xiaokui Yue; Haifeng Su; Jianping Yuan

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Stereo Vision-Based Relative Navigation Algorithm for Satellites Formation Flying

Xiaokui Yue, Haifeng Su, Jianping Yuan

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Space mission with multiple spacecraft formation is an important means to space operation. A new relative navigation algorithm based on stereo vision is developed aiming at high navigation precision requirement of spacecraft formation flying. It uses stereo vision camera attached on the tracking craft as measurement sensor, gets the relative location of target craft in the tracking craft body reference frame with imaging parallax. Relative motion equation is built in inertial frame, and discretized as the state equation of the system. Measurement information of stereo vision is used as measurement value, and the two-step filter relative navigation algorithm based on Kalman filter is designed to estimate relative navigation state in real time, and finally validated by simulation. The simulation results prove this algorithm can meet the relative navigation precision requirements of formation flying.

Published in	International Journal of Astrophysics and Space Science (Volume 2, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijass.20140201.11
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Formation Flying, Stereo Vision, Relative Navigation, Two-Step Filter

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Xiaokui Yue

National Key Laboratory of Aerospace Flight Dynamics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, P. R. China
Haifeng Su

National Key Laboratory of Aerospace Flight Dynamics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, P. R. China
Jianping Yuan

National Key Laboratory of Aerospace Flight Dynamics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, P. R. China

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Xiaokui Yue, Haifeng Su, Jianping Yuan. Stereo Vision-Based Relative Navigation Algorithm for Satellites Formation Flying. Int J Astrophys Space Sci. 2014;2(1):1-5. doi: 10.11648/j.ijass.20140201.11

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