- 著者
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伊達 直輝
坂東 麻衣
外本 伸治
- 出版者
- 一般社団法人 日本機械学会
- 雑誌
- 日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.81, no.826, pp.14-00487-14-00487, 2015 (Released:2015-06-25)
- 参考文献数
- 15
- 被引用文献数
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1
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Space Situational Awareness (SSA) has been recognized to be important for safe space activities. As low-thrust propulsion technology becomes increasingly popular, SSA for low-thrust spacecraft may become an area of increasing interest. In this paper, we propose an orbital estimation method to predict the long-term evolution of spacecraft trajectory under unknown low-thrust acceleration. In particular, by the use of the perturbation theory and a nonlinear Kalman filter, long-term variations of orbital elements and thrust accelerations can be estimated from observation data of mean orbital elements. Performance of our method are evaluated for both controlled and uncontrolled orbits.