Satellite Threat Knowledge Graph for Close-Approach Event Prediction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional prediction methods for satellite close approach events fail to accurately capture dynamic relationships and complex environmental changes, leading to reduced accuracy in event prediction.

Innovation Solution

A knowledge graph is constructed using meta-paths and hyperedges to model complex relationships, combined with feature encoding and aggregation, to comprehensively describe entities and their interactions, and a prediction model is trained to enhance accuracy.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If conventional prediction methods are used, then the prediction process is simple, but the prediction accuracy is reduced due to inability to capture dynamic relationships and complex environmental changes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprediction accuracyVSAvoidprediction model complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the prediction model into multiple specialized components: a knowledge graph construction module that structures domain knowledge, a feature extraction network that captures entity characteristics, a meta-path extraction module that identifies relationship patterns, and a prediction network that generates predictions. This segmentation allows each component to specialize in capturing specific aspects of dynamic relationships, thereby improving overall prediction accuracy while managing complexity through modular design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces meta-paths as an additional dimension for modeling relationships beyond direct entity connections. By extracting meta-paths that represent multi-hop relationships and temporal patterns from the knowledge graph, the model captures complex environmental changes and dynamic relationships that cannot be represented by simple entity pairs, thus improving prediction accuracy without proportionally increasing base model complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Reliability

If a knowledge graph with meta-paths andhyperedges is constructed, then dynamic relationships are effectively modeled, but the computational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemodeling accuracy of dynamic relationshipsVSAvoidknowledge graph structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary action by pre-constructing the knowledge graph with entities, relationships, and meta-paths before the prediction process. The knowledge graph is built offline to encode domain knowledge and historical relationships, allowing the prediction model to leverage this pre-processed structure without computing complex relationships in real-time. This separates the complexity of relationship modeling from the prediction computation, improving reliability while managing computational complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces meta-paths as intermediary structures that mediate between raw knowledge graph data and prediction inputs. Meta-paths serve as compressed representations of complex relationship patterns, transforming the intricate knowledge graph structure into manageable feature vectors that capture dynamic relationships without requiring the prediction model to directly process the full complexity of the knowledge graph at inference time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Loss of information

If feature extraction and aggregation is performed for each entity, then comprehensive entity description is achieved, but the processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completeness of entity featuresVSAvoidfeature processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges feature extraction and aggregation into a unified neural network framework where entity features are extracted and aggregated through differentiable operations. By combining these operations within the same computational graph, the model can leverage gradient-based optimization to simultaneously learn feature representations and aggregation strategies, reducing processing time compared to sequential separate operations while maintaining information completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements dynamic feature aggregation where the aggregation strategy adapts based on the specific entity and its context in the knowledge graph. The model dynamically selects which meta-paths and neighboring entities to aggregate for each target entity, rather than applying a fixed aggregation procedure to all entities. This dynamic approach improves information completeness by focusing computational resources on relevant features while reducing overall processing time through selective aggregation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS20260037835A1Event prediction method based on satellite orbit threat domain knowledge graph
Publication Date: 2026.02.05 ZHEJIANG LAB
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AI summary

An event prediction method based on a satellite orbit threat domain knowledge graph is provided. By constructing a knowledge graph of the satellite orbit threat domain, and utilizing steps such as meta-path extraction, hyperedge construction, feature encoding, and feature aggregation, target features that can comprehensively and accurately describe each entity and the complex relationships between each entity in the satellite orbit threat domain are obtained, and a prediction model is trained by using the target features of each entity.