• Acta Photonica Sinica
  • Vol. 51, Issue 3, 0304002 (2022)
Di PAN, Qi ZHOU*, Xuan LIU, Bing LIU, and Hui FANG
Author Affiliations
  • Shanghai Aerospace Control Technology Institute,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Aerospace Intelligent Control Technology,Shanghai 201109,China
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    DOI: 10.3788/gzxb20225103.0304002 Cite this Article
    Di PAN, Qi ZHOU, Xuan LIU, Bing LIU, Hui FANG. Modeling and Detection of Star Spot in High Dynamic Condition[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2022, 51(3): 0304002 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    In high dynamic conditions, the star spot exhibits a tailing phenomenon, which makes it impossible to accurately extract the star point centroid. In the exposure time, the total number of photoelectrons received by the detector does not change, but with the occurrence of the tailing phenomenon, the star energy is dispersed into more pixels, resulting in blurred and broken star point imaging. The tailing, blurring and fracture of the star spot make the traditional method unable to accurately extract the star centroid, which has adverse effects on the attitude determination of the spacecraft. Adjusting the exposure time can shorten the tail length but it will reduce the energy received by the detector, which also makes it difficult to extract the star centroid. Aiming at the above two problems, this paper proposes a method for modeling and detecting of star spot in high dynamic condition. The method is divided into four steps. Firstly, establish the static star spot template based on blackbody radiation. Secondly, generate the dynamic star spot template based on star blur and Bresenham algorithm. Then, search the coarse positioning area of the star target by correlation template matching. Finally, utilize the centroid method to extract the star centroid. Simulation experiments based on stargazing data in the field proved that the simple template generated by Bresenham algorithm and the complex template generated by integration have the same accuracy in extracting the star centroid, but the calculation speed of the former is 500 times that of the latter. Therefore, when using the correlation template matching method to perform coarse star positioning, the simple template generated by the algorithm in this paper is an approximate replacement of the real star spot energy distribution without sacrificing accuracy. The experimental results show that the proposed method can adapt to various exposure time, making the star sensor realize the stable tracking at the angular velocity of 3°/s. When the exposure time is 50ms and the angular velocity is 3°/s, the angular distance error is 10 arcseconds, the average extraction rate is 97%,, which is the increase of 78.4%, 36.6%, compared to the traditional method.
    Di PAN, Qi ZHOU, Xuan LIU, Bing LIU, Hui FANG. Modeling and Detection of Star Spot in High Dynamic Condition[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2022, 51(3): 0304002
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