Embedded State Estimation for Optimization of Cislunar Space Domain Awareness Constellation Design

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Autori principali: Clareson, Thomas H., Fox, Matthew C., Amato, Dominic K., Lee, Hang Woon
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Clareson, Thomas H.
Fox, Matthew C.
Amato, Dominic K.
Lee, Hang Woon
author_facet Clareson, Thomas H.
Fox, Matthew C.
Amato, Dominic K.
Lee, Hang Woon
contents The traffic in cislunar space is expected to increase over the coming years, leading to a higher likelihood of conjunction events among active satellites, orbital debris, and non-cooperative satellites. This increase necessitates enhanced space domain awareness (SDA) capabilities that include state estimation for targets of interest. Both Earth surface-based and space-based observation platforms in geosynchronous orbit or below face challenges such as range, exclusion, and occlusion that hinder observation. Motivated by the need to place space-based observers in the cislunar space regime to overcome these challenges, this paper proposes a cislunar SDA constellation design and analysis framework that integrates state estimation into an optimization problem for determining the placement of observers for optimal state estimation performance on a set of targets. The proposed multi-observer placement optimization problem samples from a range of possible target orbits. Upon convergence, the optimized constellation is validated against a broader set of targets to assess its effectiveness. Two comparative analyses are presented to evaluate the effects of changes in the sensor tasking procedure and sensor fidelity on the optimized constellation, comparing these to a single observer baseline case. The results demonstrate that the optimized constellations can provide accurate state estimation for various orbit families.
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spellingShingle Embedded State Estimation for Optimization of Cislunar Space Domain Awareness Constellation Design
Clareson, Thomas H.
Fox, Matthew C.
Amato, Dominic K.
Lee, Hang Woon
Optimization and Control
Systems and Control
Space Physics
The traffic in cislunar space is expected to increase over the coming years, leading to a higher likelihood of conjunction events among active satellites, orbital debris, and non-cooperative satellites. This increase necessitates enhanced space domain awareness (SDA) capabilities that include state estimation for targets of interest. Both Earth surface-based and space-based observation platforms in geosynchronous orbit or below face challenges such as range, exclusion, and occlusion that hinder observation. Motivated by the need to place space-based observers in the cislunar space regime to overcome these challenges, this paper proposes a cislunar SDA constellation design and analysis framework that integrates state estimation into an optimization problem for determining the placement of observers for optimal state estimation performance on a set of targets. The proposed multi-observer placement optimization problem samples from a range of possible target orbits. Upon convergence, the optimized constellation is validated against a broader set of targets to assess its effectiveness. Two comparative analyses are presented to evaluate the effects of changes in the sensor tasking procedure and sensor fidelity on the optimized constellation, comparing these to a single observer baseline case. The results demonstrate that the optimized constellations can provide accurate state estimation for various orbit families.
title Embedded State Estimation for Optimization of Cislunar Space Domain Awareness Constellation Design
topic Optimization and Control
Systems and Control
Space Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06425