地月空间DRO光学导航测角信息智能提取方法

DRO optical navigation: an intelligent and robust method for measurement extraction

  • 摘要: 针对远距离逆行轨道(distant retrograde orbit, DRO)光学自主导航任务中,传统图像处理方法在残月、蛾眉月等极端相位以及复杂曝光条件下质心提取精度显著下降甚至失效的现象,本文聚焦这一长期制约导航性能的关键问题展开研究. 上述工况下目标区域受遮挡与非均匀照明影响明显,基于边缘提取与拟合的方法易受噪声干扰并陷入局部最优,成为制约高精度测角的关键挑战. 为此本文提出一种基于深度几何约束的双关键点回归方法,将质心提取转化为融合物理与几何先验的特征学习过程. 该方法以YOLOv8-pose为关键点回归框架,引入“物理质心”和“几何中心”作为联合回归目标,利用可见亮弧所蕴含的几何约束,对不可见区域中不可观测的质心位置进行有效限制,从而提升极端相位下的鲁棒性. 基于高保真虚拟引擎生成的在轨观测数据集开展验证,结果表明,相较于传统椭圆模型直接法,本文方法将测角误差由0.116°降低至0.013°,测角信息精度提升了一个量级,验证了该方法在复杂深空成像条件下的有效性与可行性,为高可靠光学自主导航提供了一种新的实现途径.

     

    Abstract: In distant retrograde orbit (DRO) optical autonomous navigation, traditional image-processing-based centroid extraction methods often suffer from severe performance degradation or even failure under extreme illumination and phase conditions, such as crescent and gibbous phases. These operating scenarios are characterized by significant target occlusion and non-uniform illumination, under which edge-based detection and fitting approaches become highly sensitive to noise and prone to convergence toward local optima, thereby constituting a major limitation for high-accuracy angle measurements. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a dual keypoint regression method based on deep geometric constraints, in which the conventional centroid extraction problem is reformulated as a feature learning task that jointly incorporates physical and geometric priors. The proposed method adopts YOLOv8-pose as the keypoint regression framework and introduces the physical centroid and the geometric center as jointly regressed targets. By exploiting the geometric constraints implied by the observable illuminated arc, the prediction space of the centroid in unobservable regions is effectively restricted, leading to enhanced robustness under extreme phase conditions. Validation experiments conducted on an on-orbit observation dataset generated by a high-fidelity virtual simulation engine demonstrate that, compared with the traditional ellipse-based direct method, the proposed approach reduces the angular measurement error decreases from 0.116° to 0.013°, corresponding to an order-of-magnitude improvement in angular accuracy. These results confirm the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method in complex deep-space imaging environments, providing a viable solution for high-reliability optical autonomous navigation.

     

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