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Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica ›› 2023, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (15): 528752-528752.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2023.28752

• Flight Mechanics and Guidance Control • Previous Articles    

Space-based LEO-observation search planning for maritime moving targets

Di YANG1,2, Zhenyu LI1,2, Shuai GUO1,2, Jiacheng ZHANG1,2, Yazhong LUO1,2()   

  1. 1.College of Aerospace Science and Engineering,National University of Defense Technology,Changsha  410073,China
    2.Hunan Key Laboratory of Intelligent Planning and Simulation for Aerospace Missions,Changsha  410073,China
  • Received:2023-03-29 Revised:2023-04-26 Accepted:2023-05-30 Online:2023-06-02 Published:2023-05-31
  • Contact: Yazhong LUO E-mail:luoyz@nudt.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(12125207);the from Technology Innovation Team of Manned Spaced Engineering

Abstract:

Searching for maritime moving targets is commonly demanded in civil and military fields. In contrast to conventional means via airplanes and ships, Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) observation satellites are more applicable for large-area search in the distant sea. In this paper, a satellite observation search planning problem in the scenario of single prior location without feedback is studied, which contains two key issues, motion prediction of moving targets and planning of observation satellites. First is motion prediction modeling, in which an area-probability-distribution modeling method is proposed based on a local-heading-weighting strategy and a yaw-constraint assumption. Then, an observation-planning model is proposed.in which, the design variables are defined considering the switching of observation swaths. An objective function that is based on the “missing probability” of the target is proposed. Finally, a two-layer optimization algorithm based on a single-window-directional-search heuristic strategy is proposed to solve the satellite searching scheme. The methods proposed are analyzed with three groups of simulations. Firstly, the global validity of the probabilistic prediction indicator and “prediction-planning” method is verified by trajectory shooting. Secondly, the feasibility of the “missing probability” indicator is proved by shooting for multiple Monte-Carlo trajectory sets. Thirdly, a comparison of the two-layer optimization algorithm with two other methods shows the advantage of the algorithm in solution efficiency and quality.

Key words: moving target, low-earth-orbit observation satellite, motion prediction, observation-planning model, two-layer optimization, trajectory shooting

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