Multirate Observation-Based X-Ray Pulsar Navigation Technique
Publication: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Volume 30, Issue 1
Abstract
X-ray pulsar navigation techniques can provide the information of position and velocity for spacecraft and have proven to be an extremely promising autonomous navigation solution. Currently, one of the main problems of pulsar navigation is that the update rate of the measurement data is low. In this paper, a multirate observation pulsar navigation model is proposed to improve the update rate of measurement data. To solve the uncertainty of the measured angles in the multirate observation model of pulsar navigation, a robust extended Kalman filter (REKF) is also proposed. In order to verify the effectiveness of the model and filtering algorithm, the root-mean square (RMS) errors of the REKF for multirate observation model is compared with the extended Kalman filter (EKF) for a multirate observation model and REKF for a synchronous observation model. The simulations results show that the proposed multirate observation model and REKF are valid to improve navigation accuracy.
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Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Volume 30 • Issue 1 • January 2017
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Received: Nov 21, 2015
Accepted: May 4, 2016
Published online: Jul 19, 2016
Discussion open until: Dec 19, 2016
Published in print: Jan 1, 2017
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