Infrared Earth sensorwith a large field of view for low-Earth-orbiting micro-satellites

Hao WANG, Zhi-yuan WANG, Ben-dong WANG, Zhong-he JIN, John L. CRASSIDIS

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Front. Inform. Technol. Electron. Eng ›› 2021, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (2) : 262-271. DOI: 10.1631/FITEE.1900358
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Infrared Earth sensorwith a large field of view for low-Earth-orbiting micro-satellites

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Infrared Earth sensors are widely used in attitude-determination and control systems of satellites. The main deficiency of static infrared Earth sensors is the requirement of a small field of view (FOV). A typical FOV for a static infrared Earth sensor is about 20◦ to 30◦, which may not be sufficient for low-Earth-orbiting microsatellites. A novel compact infrared Earth sensor with an FOV of nearly 180◦ is developed here. The Earth sensor comprises a panoramic annular lens (PAL) and an off-the-shelf camera with an uncooled complementary-metaloxide- semiconductor (CMOS) infrared sensor. PAL is used to augment FOV so as to obtain a complete infrared image of the Earth from low-Earth-orbit. An algorithm is developed to compensate for the distortion caused by PAL and to calculate the vector of the Earth. The new infrared Earth sensor is compact with low power consumption and high precision. Simulated images and on-orbit infrared images obtained via the micro-satellite ZDPS-2 are used to assess the performance of the new infrared Earth sensor. Experiments show that the accuracy of the Earth sensor is about 0.032◦.

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Infrared Earth sensor / Micro-satellite / Attitude determination system

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Hao WANG, Zhi-yuan WANG, Ben-dong WANG, Zhong-he JIN, John L. CRASSIDIS. Infrared Earth sensorwith a large field of view for low-Earth-orbiting micro-satellites. Front. Inform. Technol. Electron. Eng, 2021, 22(2): 262‒271 https://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.1900358

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