Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5486209 | Advances in Space Research | 2017 | 35 Pages |
Abstract
Space debris tracking is of great importance for safe operation of spacecraft. This paper presents an algorithm that achieves global tracking of space debris with a multi-sensor network. The sensor network has unknown and possibly time-varying topology. A consensus algorithm is used to effectively counteract the effects of data incest. Gaussian Mixture-Cardinalized Probability Hypothesis Density (GM-CPHD) filtering is used to estimate the state of the space debris. As an example of the method, 45 clusters of sensors are used to achieve global tracking. The performance of the proposed approach is demonstrated by simulation experiments.
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Authors
Baishen Wei, Brett Nener, Weifeng Liu, Liang Ma,