Time-Varying Directional State Transition Tensor for Orbit Uncertainty Propagation

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Main Authors: Zhou, Xingyu, Armellin, Roberto, Qiao, Dong, Li, Xiangyu
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author Zhou, Xingyu
Armellin, Roberto
Qiao, Dong
Li, Xiangyu
author_facet Zhou, Xingyu
Armellin, Roberto
Qiao, Dong
Li, Xiangyu
contents The directional state transition tensor (DSTT) reduces the complexity of state transition tensor (STT) by aligning the STT terms in sensitive directions only, which provides comparable accuracy in orbital uncertainty propagation. The DSTT assumes the sensitive directions to be constant during the integration and only works at a predefined epoch. This paper proposes a time-varying STT (TDSTT) to improve the DSTT. The proposed TDSTT computes the sensitive directions with time; thereby, it can perform uncertainty propagation analysis at any point instead of only a predefined epoch as the DSTT does. First, the derivatives of the sensitive directions are derived. Then, the differential equations for the high-order TDSTTs are derived and simplified using the orthogonality of sensitive directions. Next, complexity analysis is implemented to show the advantages of the proposed TDSTT over the STT. Finally, the TDSTT is applied to solve orbital uncertainty propagation problems in highly nonlinear three-body systems. Numerical results show that the proposed TDSTT can yield nearly the same level of accuracy as the STT and DSTT. It is approximately 94% faster than the STT and has hundreds of improvements in speed over the DSTT when one wants to investigate the evolutions of orbital uncertainties.
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spellingShingle Time-Varying Directional State Transition Tensor for Orbit Uncertainty Propagation
Zhou, Xingyu
Armellin, Roberto
Qiao, Dong
Li, Xiangyu
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
The directional state transition tensor (DSTT) reduces the complexity of state transition tensor (STT) by aligning the STT terms in sensitive directions only, which provides comparable accuracy in orbital uncertainty propagation. The DSTT assumes the sensitive directions to be constant during the integration and only works at a predefined epoch. This paper proposes a time-varying STT (TDSTT) to improve the DSTT. The proposed TDSTT computes the sensitive directions with time; thereby, it can perform uncertainty propagation analysis at any point instead of only a predefined epoch as the DSTT does. First, the derivatives of the sensitive directions are derived. Then, the differential equations for the high-order TDSTTs are derived and simplified using the orthogonality of sensitive directions. Next, complexity analysis is implemented to show the advantages of the proposed TDSTT over the STT. Finally, the TDSTT is applied to solve orbital uncertainty propagation problems in highly nonlinear three-body systems. Numerical results show that the proposed TDSTT can yield nearly the same level of accuracy as the STT and DSTT. It is approximately 94% faster than the STT and has hundreds of improvements in speed over the DSTT when one wants to investigate the evolutions of orbital uncertainties.
title Time-Varying Directional State Transition Tensor for Orbit Uncertainty Propagation
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07060