Estimate Fusion for Conjunction Assessment

No AccessEngineering NotesEstimate Fusion for Conjunction AssessmentJ. Russell CarpenterJ. Russell CarpenterNASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771*Deputy Project Manager/Technical, Space Science Mission Operations Project, 8800 Greenbelt Rd./Code 444. Associate Fellow AIAA.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:22 Jul 2020https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G004818SectionsRead Now ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail About References [1] Poore A. B., Aristoff J. M., Horwood J. T., Armellin R., Cerven W. T., Cheng Y., Cox C. M., Erwin R. S., Frisbee J. H., Hejduk M. D., Jones B. A., Di Lizia P., Scheeres D. J., Vallado D. A. and Weisman R. M., “Covariance and Uncertainty Realism in Space Surveillance and Tracking,” Air Force Space Command Astrodynamics Innovation Committee Working Group on Covariance Realism, Defense Technical Information Center, Ft. Belvoir, VA, June 2016, Accession No. AD1020892, https://apps.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD1020892 [retrieved 27 June 2016]. Google Scholar[2] Blackman S. S. and Bar-Shalom Y., “Association and Fusion of Multiple Sensor Data,” Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Advanced Applications, Artech House, Norwood, MA, 1990, pp. 187–198. Google Scholar[3] Bar-Shalom Y. and Fortmann T. E., “Multisensor Track-to-Track Fusion,” Tracking and Data Association, Academic Press, New York, 1988, pp. 266–272. Google Scholar[4] Bar-Shalom Y. and Campo L., “The Effect of Common Process Noise on the Two-Sensor Fused-Track Covariance,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. AES–22, No. 6, 1986, pp. 803–805. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAES.1986.310815 CrossrefGoogle Scholar[5] Bar-Shalom Y., “On the Track-to-Track Correlation Problem,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1981, pp. 571–572. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.1981.1102635 CrossrefGoogle Scholar[6] Carpenter J. R. and Bishop R. H., “Navigation Filter Estimate Fusion for Enhanced Spacecraft Rendezvous,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 20, No. 2, 1997, pp. 338–345. https://doi.org/10.2514/2.4043; also AIAA Paper 1994-3548, Aug. 1994. LinkGoogle Scholar[7] Julier J. J. and Uhlmann J. K., “A Non-Divergent Estimation Algorithm in the Presence of Unknown Correlations,” Proceedings of the American Control Conference, American Automatic Control Council, Dover, DE, 1997, pp. 2369–2373. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.1997.609105 Google Scholar[8] Foster J. L. and Estes H. S., “A Parametric Analysis of Orbital Debris Collision Probability and Maneuver Rate for Space Vehicles,” NASA Johnson Space Center TR JSC–25898, Houston, TX, 1992. Google Scholar[9] Akella M. R. and Alfriend K. T., “Probability of Collision Between Space Objects,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 23, No. 5, 2000, pp. 769–772. https://doi.org/10.2514/2.4611 LinkGoogle Scholar[10] Coppola V. T., “Including Velocity Uncertainty in the Probability of Collision Between Space Objects,” Space Flight Mechanics 2012, Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 143, Univelt, Escondido, CA, 2012, pp. 2159–2178. Google Scholar[11] DeMars K. J., Cheng Y. and Jah M. K., “Collision Probability with Gaussian Mixture Orbit Uncertainty,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2014, pp. 979–985. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.62308 LinkGoogle Scholar[12] Carpenter J. R. and Bishop R. H., “Estimate Fusion for Lunar Rendezvous,” Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, AIAA Paper 1993-3700, 1993. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.1993-3700 LinkGoogle Scholar[13] Balch M. S., Martin R. and Ferson S., “Satellite Conjunction Analysis and the False Confidence Theorem,” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 475, No. 2227, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2018.0565 Google Scholar Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails What's Popular Volume 43, Number 9September 2020 CrossmarkInformationThis material is declared a work of the U.S. Government and is not subject to copyright protection in the United States. All requests for copying and permission to reprint should be submitted to CCC at www.copyright.com; employ the eISSN 1533-3884 to initiate your request. See also AIAA Rights and Permissions www.aiaa.org/randp. TopicsAerospace SciencesAlgorithms and Data StructuresAstrodynamicsAstronauticsComputing, Information, and CommunicationData ScienceOrbital ManeuversSpace Orbit KeywordsSpace Situational AwarenessCovariance IntersectionCombined Space Operations CenterOrbit DeterminationKalman FilterData ProductsAstrodynamicsAcknowledgmentA prior version of this work formed a portion of Paper AAS 19-605, presented at the 2019 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Portland, ME, 11–15 August 2019.PDF Received1 October 2019Accepted4 May 2020Published online22 July 2020