Space object tracking with delayed measurements

Huimin Chen; Dan Shen; Genshe Chen; Erik Blasch; Khanh Pham

doi:10.1117/12.849785

7 May 2010 Space object tracking with delayed measurements

Huimin Chen, Dan Shen, Genshe Chen, Erik Blasch, Khanh Pham

Proceedings Volume 7691, Space Missions and Technologies; 76910J (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.849785
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2010, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the nonlinear filtering problem for tracking a space object with possibly delayed measurements. In a distributed dynamic sensing environment, due to limited communication bandwidth and long distances between the earth and the satellites, it is possible for sensor reports to be delayed when the tracking filter receives them. Such delays can be complete (the full observation vector is delayed) or partial (part of the observation vector is delayed), and with deterministic or random time lag. We propose an approximate approach to incorporate delayed measurements without reprocessing the old measurements at the tracking filter. We describe the optimal and suboptimal algorithms for filter update with delayed measurements in an orbital trajectory estimation problem without clutter. Then we extend the work to a single object tracking under clutter where probabilistic data association filter (PDAF) is used to replace the recursive linear minimum means square error (LMMSE) filter and delayed measurements with arbitrary lags are be handled without reprocessing the old measurements. Finally, we demonstrate the proposed algorithms in realistic space object tracking scenarios using the NASA General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT).

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Huimin Chen, Dan Shen, Genshe Chen, Erik Blasch, and Khanh Pham "Space object tracking with delayed measurements", Proc. SPIE 7691, Space Missions and Technologies, 76910J (7 May 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.849785

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