The relative pose (position and attitude) measurement of space noncooperative targets is very important for on-orbit servicing activities, such as target tracking, approaching, and capturing. The traditional methods rarely consider the instability of feature extraction and image blurring caused by target tumbling. In this paper, a method based on the maximum outer contour (MOC) recognition is proposed to measure the pose of the target. Different feature extraction algorithms can simultaneously achieve close- and long-range measurement tasks. First, the trailing image is restored by the image enhancement method. Second, the “rough + fine” combination recognition method is used for contour extraction and connected component labeling of the restored image, and the target feature extraction time is reduced to one-third of traditional methods. Furthermore, the elliptical surface on the MOC is fitted by the least squares method (LSM), and the ellipse parameters (i.e., the center position, the long- and short-axes, and the deflection angle) are extracted. The accuracy of the target recognition is improved. Third, for the close-range measurement, based on the detected ellipse parameter, the pose of the noncooperative target is solved by the binocular imaging algorithm of the space circle; for the long-range measurement, the contour centroid of the target is calculated by the detected MOC, and the position of the target is solved by the LSM. Moreover, the effectiveness of the method is verified by the OpenSceneGraph numerical simulation system. Finally, an experimental system consisting of a binocular camera, a UR5 manipulator, and a satellite mockup was built. The experimental results verified the proposed method.


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    Titel :

    A Pose Measurement Method of a Space Noncooperative Target Based on Maximum Outer Contour Recognition


    Beteiligte:
    Peng, Jianqing (Autor:in) / Xu, Wenfu (Autor:in) / Yan, Lei (Autor:in) / Pan, Erzhen (Autor:in) / Liang, Bin (Autor:in) / Wu, Ai-Guo (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2020-02-01


    Format / Umfang :

    7018917 byte




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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