Application of Dual Quaternion in Spacecraft Relative Navigation

To improve accuracy and real-time performance in relative positioning and measurement of attitude information meterage of spacecraft,a dual quaternion model is introduced.The method described combines relative rotation and translation between target spacecrafts and the spacecraft tracing coordinates.It uses a spiral vector method to calculate the renovated dual quaternion.A camera survey model is constructed to measure the relative position and attitude of the spacecraft.The extended Kalman filter(EKF) is used to eliminate noise jamming caused in the state updating and the measurement processes.Simulation results show that the navigation algorithm satisfies the precision requirements of spacecraft relative navigation.