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| Title: | Autonomous Navigation performance during The Hartley 2 comet flyby |
| Authors: | Instrumentation and Photography
Abrahamson, Matthew J
Kennedy, Brian A.
Bhaskaran, Shyam |
| Keywords: | Autonomous Navigation
comet
small body
flyby
optical navigation |
| Issue Date: | 14-Jun-2012 |
| Publisher: | Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2012. |
| Citation: | SpaceOps 2012, Stockholm, Sweden, June 11-15, 2012 |
| Abstract: | On November 4, 2010, the EPOXI spacecraft performed a 700-km flyby of the comet Hartley 2 as follow-on to the successful 2005 Deep Impact prime mission. EPOXI, an extended mission for the Deep Impact Flyby spacecraft, returned a wealth of visual and infrared data from Hartley 2, marking the fifth time that high-resolution images of a cometary nucleus have been captured by a spacecraft. The highest resolution science return, captured at closest approach to the comet nucleus, was enabled by use of an onboard autonomous navigation system called AutoNav. AutoNav estimates the comet-relative spacecraft trajectory using optical measurements from the Medium Resolution Imager (MRI) and provides this relative position information to the Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) for maintaining instrument pointing on the comet. For the EPOXI mission, AutoNav was tasked to enable continuous tracking of a smaller, more active Hartley 2, as compared to Tempel 1, through the full encounter while traveling at a higher velocity. To meet the mission goal of capturing the comet in all MRI science images, position knowledge accuracies of ± 3.5 km (3-σ) cross track and ± 0.3 seconds (3-σ) time of flight were required. A flight-code-in-the-loop Monte Carlo simulation assessed AutoNav’s statistical performance under the Hartley 2 flyby dynamics and determined optimal configuration. The AutoNav performance at Hartley 2 was successful, capturing the comet in all of the MRI images. The maximum residual between observed and predicted comet locations was 20 MRI pixels, primarily influenced by the center of brightness offset from the center of mass in the observations and attitude knowledge errors. This paper discusses the Monte Carlo-based analysis that led to the final AutoNav configuration and a comparison of the predicted performance with the flyby performance. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2014/42446 |
| Appears in Collections: | JPL TRS 1992+
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