• Optics and Precision Engineering
  • Vol. 29, Issue 12, 2915 (2021)
Yun-da SUN1,2,3, Xue WAN1,2,3,*, and Sheng-yang LI1,2,3
Author Affiliations
  • 1University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing00049, China
  • 2Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100094, China
  • 3Key Laboratory of Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100094, China
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    DOI: 10.37188/OPE.20212912.2915 Cite this Article
    Yun-da SUN, Xue WAN, Sheng-yang LI. Siamese network based satellite component tracking[J]. Optics and Precision Engineering, 2021, 29(12): 2915 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    To meet the requirements for precise positioning of spacecraft components during space missions, this paper proposes a spacecraft component tracking algorithm based on a Siamese neural network. The proposed approach solves the common problem of confusing similar components. First, the spacecraft component tracking problem was modeled by training with data via the neural network; the Siamese network was designed by improving the AlexNet network. A large public dataset GOT-10k was used to train the Siamese network. Stochastic gradient descent was then used to optimize the network. Finally, to eliminate the positioning confusion occasioned by the resemblance of similar parts of the spacecraft, a tracking strategy combining motion sequence characteristics was developed to improve the tracking accuracy. The spacecraft video data published by ESA was used to test the proposed algorithm. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm, without using spacecraft related data for training, achieves 57.2% and 73.1% of the intersection ratio of the tracking results between the cabin and solar panel, and the speed reaches 38 FPS. This demonstrates that the proposed method can meet the requirements of stable and reliable tracking of spacecraft components with high precision and strong anti-interference.
    Yun-da SUN, Xue WAN, Sheng-yang LI. Siamese network based satellite component tracking[J]. Optics and Precision Engineering, 2021, 29(12): 2915
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