Rapid satellite-to-site visibility determination based on self-adaptive interpolation technique

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• 作者：Chao Han ; XiaoJie Gao ; XiuCong Sun
• 关键词：satellite ; to ; site visibility ; rapid determination ; self ; adaptive Hermite interpolation ; viewing cone
• 刊名：Science China Technological Sciences
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：60
• 期：2
• 页码：264-270
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• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Engineering, general;
• 出版者：Science China Press
• ISSN：1869-1900
• 卷排序：60

文摘

Rapid satellite-to-site visibility determination is of great significance to coverage analysis of satellite constellations as well as onboard mission planning of autonomous spacecraft. This paper presents a novel self-adaptive Hermite interpolation technique for rapid satellite-to-site visibility determination. Piecewise cubic curves are utilized to approximate the waveform of the visibility function versus time. The fourth-order derivative is used to control the approximation error and to optimize the time step for interpolation. The rise and set times are analytically obtained from the roots of cubic polynomials. To further increase the computational speed, an interval shrinking strategy is adopted via investigating the geometric relationship between the ground viewing cone and the orbit trajectory. Simulation results show a 98% decrease in computation time over the brute force method. The method is suitable for all orbital types and analytical orbit propagators.