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Mono-Vision Based Satellite Relative Navigation Using Active Contour Method

능동 윤곽 기법을 적용한 단일 영상 기반 인공위성 상대항법

  • Received : 2015.03.04
  • Accepted : 2015.09.16
  • Published : 2015.10.01
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Abstract

In this paper, monovision based relative navigation for a satellite proximity operation is studied. The chaser satellite only uses one camera sensor to observe the target satellite and conducts image tracking to obtain the target pose information. However, by using only mono-vision, it is hard to get the depth information which is related to the relative distance to the target. In order to resolve the well-known difficulty in computing the depth information with the use of a single camera, the active contour method is adopted for the image tracking process. The active contour method provides the size of target image, which can be utilized to indirectly calculate the relative distance between the chaser and the target. 3D virtual reality is used in order to model the space environment where two satellites make relative motion and produce the virtual camera images. The unscented Kalman filter is used for the chaser satellite to estimate the relative position of the target in the process of glideslope approaching. Closed-loop simulations are conducted to analyze the performance of the relative navigation with the active contour method.

본 논문에서는 인공위성 근접운용을 위한 단일 영상 기반 상대항법에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 추적 위성은 하나의 카메라 센서만을 이용하여 표적 위성을 관측하고 영상추적을 통해 표적 위성의 위치 정보를 얻게 된다. 그러나 단일 영상만을 이용할 경우, 표적과의 상대 거리에 해당하는 깊이 정보를 얻기 힘들다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 능동 윤곽 기법을 영상 추적에 적용하였다. 능동 윤곽 기법을 통해 표적의 이미지 크기를 얻을 수 있고 이러한 형상 정보를 바탕으로 상대 거리를 간접적으로 계산할 수 있다. 두 인공 위성이 상대 운동을 하는 우주환경을 구현하고 가상의 카메라 영상을 생성하기 위해 3차원 가상현실이 이용되었다. 추적 위성은 UKF를 이용하여 표적 위성에 대한 상대위치를 추정하면서 글라이드슬로프 접근 기법을 이용하여 표적 위성에 근접한다. 상대항법의 성능을 분석하기 위해서 폐 루프 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다.

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