A method for detecting relative orbital maneuvers of
spacecraft based on
cluster analysis includes: reading the TLE historical data of the master star of the
spacecraft formation and calculating the instantaneous
orbital elements, using the SGP4 model for
recursion to obtain the orbital state at the moment when the
latitude angle is 0; reading the TLE historical data of the slave star of the
spacecraft formation and calculating the instantaneous
orbital elements, using the SGP4 model to recursively calculate the orbital state at the same time as the master star data, and realizing the
time synchronization of the dual-star data; calculating the relative distance of the
spacecraft formation, and performing data denoising and normalization to obtain a
data set; using the silhouette coefficient to determine the number of clusters, that is, the number of
orbital maneuver types; using the fuzzy C-means
algorithm for
cluster analysis, obtaining a clustering result based on the relative distance of the spacecraft
orbit, and realizing
orbital maneuver detection. The method of the present invention can effectively avoid the influence of human subjective
cognition and experience on the judgment of orbital maneuvers, meet the timeliness requirements of
orbital maneuver detection, and significantly improve the accuracy of
orbital control maneuver detection.