The invention belongs to the technical field of
spaceflight and space
situation awareness, and particularly relates to a
space debris short arc
data association method and device based on a
factor graph, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining optical angle measurement short arc data from an observation
station, and carrying out the preprocessing; an angle observation initial
orbit determination
algorithm is adopted to obtain an
orbit state initial value; constructing a
cost matrix, performing preliminary screening on track state initial values corresponding to different short arc
observation data, and generating a limited number of multi-correlation hypotheses through disturbance sampling expansion; constructing a nonlinear
factor graph under each association
hypothesis; solving the maximum posteriori
estimation, and selecting an optimal association
hypothesis according to a residual error and an information criterion; and outputting the associated cluster, the track state and the uncertainty thereof, and carrying out consistency check. According to the method, efficient and robust multi-arc-segment association and preliminary
orbit estimation can be performed on optical angle measurement short arc data in foundation and space-based observation scenes, and scene self-adaption, real-time performance and high accuracy are realized.