Cooperative Search and Tracking of Moving Ships Using Constellation Multi-Functional Payloads Based on Dynamic Information Gain
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摘要: 针对广域海面非合作机动舰船位置不确定性随未观测时间持续扩散,以及星群多功能载荷在搜索—跟踪模式、姿态机动和能量消耗方面存在强耦合约束的问题,提出一种基于动态信息增益的协同搜索与跟踪方法。首先,依据目标上一确认状态、航速/航向扰动和未观测时长生成参数化概率网格,以离散信息熵表征目标位置不确定性,并结合连续命中状态构建状态驱动的双模收益模型:稳健跟踪态采用窄视场模式,以任务视场内的先验捕获概率评价观测收益;丢失搜索态采用宽视场模式,以Kullback-Leibler(KL)散度的信息论定义为基础,利用二元Hit/Miss事件熵近似评价候选区域的搜索信息价值。其次,建立同时考虑目标动态优先级、跟踪收益、搜索收益和能量消耗的滚动多目标规划模型,并将单星时域互斥、姿态切换稳定时间及能量预算作为物理硬约束。在此基础上,提出基于非支配排序遗传算法(NSGA-II)的多目标协同演化规划算法(Cooperative Evolutionary Planning-Multi-Objective, CEP-MO),通过全局整数索引编码、约束感知启发式初始化、卫星分组交叉、自适应修复和理想点决策,提高强约束大规模任务空间中的可行解生成与协同规划效率。仿真实验表明,在200艘机动目标的大规模场景下,相较于标准NSGA-II,所提CEP-MO算法保障了规划方案在星群能源与姿态等物理硬约束下的可行性,降低了目标位置不确定性对系统调度效能的影响,将平均重访间隔缩短了62.8%,提高不确定性目标的再捕获与持续监视能力。Abstract:
Objective Wide-area maritime surveillance requires satellite constellations to search for and revisit non-cooperative maneuvering ships whose positions become uncertain after missed observations. Meanwhile, multi-functional payloads are subject to coupled constraints on observation timing, attitude maneuvering, payload mode, and energy consumption. To address dynamic target uncertainty and executable constellation scheduling, a cooperative search-and-tracking method based on dynamic information gain is proposed. Methods A closed-loop rolling-horizon framework inspired by Model Predictive Control is constructed to perform prediction, optimization, execution, and feedback. At each decision epoch, candidate atomic tasks are generated over a planning horizon, while only tasks within the current execution window are committed. Each task specifies the executing satellite, target, candidate pointing grid, start/end times, and payload mode. Target uncertainty is represented by a parameterized probabilistic grid derived from the latest confirmed state, speed and heading perturbations, and elapsed time since the last successful observation. Hit/Miss feedback updates the uncertainty baseline for the next rolling step, where the probability grid, candidate tasks, and observation plan are regenerated. A state-driven dual-mode benefit model is established according to target information entropy and consecutive successful observations. In the robust tracking state, narrow-field tasks are evaluated by the prior capture probability, namely the probability mass covered by the task footprint. In the lost-search state, wide-field tasks are evaluated by the binary entropy of Hit/Miss events as an approximation of search information value. This approximation is motivated by Kullback-Leibler divergence and avoids explicit posterior reconstruction for every candidate task. A dynamic priority coefficient increases scheduling urgency for long-unobserved targets and moderately down-weights repeatedly confirmed targets. The resulting multi-objective model maximizes weighted task benefit and information gain while minimizing energy consumption, subject to hard constraints on single-satellite temporal exclusivity, attitude-transition stabilization time, and available energy. Based on NSGA-II, the Cooperative Evolutionary Planning-Multi-Objective (CEP-MO) algorithm employs global integer-index encoding, constraint-aware Top-K heuristic initialization, satellite-group crossover, and adaptive repair to improve feasible-solution generation. Feasible Pareto solutions are normalized, and the solution closest to the ideal point (1,1,0) is selected for execution. Results and Discussions Simulations with a 48-satellite Walker constellation demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. In the 200-target scenario, Standard NSGA-II obtains an average revisit interval of 53.5 min and a weighted coverage of 13.9%, whereas CEP-MO achieves 19.9 min and 41.7%, respectively, reducing the average revisit interval by 62.8% ( Fig. 7 ). Removing the binary-event-entropy benefit increases system-average uncertainty and revisit interval, while replacing constraint-aware initialization with random initialization degrades early convergence and weighted coverage. As the target number increases from 100 to 200, CEP-MO maintains acceptable scalability (Fig. 8 ). At 200 targets, its weighted coverage is 16.6 percentage points higher than that of CEP-MO w/o Entropy, the computation time per rolling decision is approximately 22 s, and the Gini coefficient of remaining satellite energy stays below 0.3, indicating that energy consumption is not excessively concentrated on a small subset of satellites.Conclusions The proposed framework integrates probabilistic-grid uncertainty representation, state-driven search/tracking benefit evaluation, rolling feedback, and constraint-aware multi-objective evolutionary planning. CEP-MO improves revisit and weighted-coverage performance while maintaining temporal, attitude, and energy feasibility. The method provides an effective approach for large-scale resource-constrained maritime surveillance and a basis for future extensions involving identification errors, communication delays, and constrained inter-satellite links. -
表 1 符号说明
符号 释义 $ \mathrm{w} $ 候选原子观测任务,$ \mathrm{w}=\left\langle \mathrm{k},\mathrm{I},\mathrm{g},{\mathrm{t}}_{\mathrm{s}},{\mathrm{t}}_{\mathrm{e}},\mathrm{m}\right\rangle $,具体含义见3.4节 $ {\mathrm{M}}_{\mathrm{i}} $ 当前决策节拍内目标$ \mathrm{i} $的双模指示函数:1代表稳健跟踪态,0代表丢失搜索态 $ {C}_{m}(w) $ 任务$ w $在载荷模式$ m $下视场投影覆盖的概率网格集合 $ {\mathrm{P}}_{\mathrm{i}}\left(\mathrm{w}\right) $ 任务$ w $对目标$ i $的先验捕获概率 $ {\mathrm{G}}_{\mathrm{i}} $ 当前决策节拍内目标$ i $的预测概率网格集合 $ g $ 候选概率网格/候选指向网格 $ {\mathrm{p}}_{\mathrm{i},\mathrm{g}} $ 当前决策节拍内目标$ i $位于网格$ g $的先验概率质量 $ {\mathrm{H}}_{\mathrm{i}} $ 当前决策节拍内目标$ i $的离散概率分布信息熵 $ {\alpha }_{i} $ 目标$ i $在当前滚动决策时刻的动态优先级系数,完整形式可记为$ {\alpha }_{i}({t}_{r}) $ $ {\mathrm{V}}_{\text{track}}\left(\mathrm{w}\right) $ 稳健跟踪模态下,执行任务$ \mathrm{w} $带来的观测收益 $ {\mathrm{V}}_{\text{search}}\left(\mathrm{w}\right) $ 丢失搜索模态下,执行任务$ \mathrm{w} $带来的期望信息增益 $ {\mathrm{C}}_{\text{task}}\left(\mathrm{w}\right) $ 卫星执行任务$ \mathrm{w} $所需消耗的能量代价 1 约束感知启发式初始化策略
输入:规划视界$ {\mathrm{T}}_{\mathrm{p}}$内全体可见任务集合$\Omega $,种群大小${\mathrm{N}}_{\text{pop}} $,卫星初始电量${\mathrm{E}}_{\mathrm{k}}\left({\mathrm{t}}_{\mathrm{r}}\right) $ 输出:初始种群$ {\mathrm{P}}_{0} $ 1: 计算所有任务的初始化评分:$ {\mathrm{J}}_{\text{init}}(\mathrm{w})\leftarrow {\alpha }_{\mathrm{i}}\left[{\mathrm{M}}_{\mathrm{i}}{\mathrm{V}}_{\text{track}}(\mathrm{w})+(1-{\mathrm{M}}_{\mathrm{i}}){\mathrm{V}}_{\text{search}}(\mathrm{w})\right] $ 2: $ {\mathrm{P}}_{0}\leftarrow \mathrm{\varnothing } $ 3: for $ \mathrm{p}=1 $ to $ {\mathrm{N}}_{\text{pop}} $ do 4: 初始化空染色体$ x $,并复制当前各卫星的资源状态 5: 动态构建候选任务池 $ {\mathrm{Q}}_{\text{pool}}\leftarrow \Omega $ 6: while$ {\mathrm{Q}}_{\text{pool}}\neq \mathrm{\varnothing } $ do 7: 从$ {\mathrm{Q}}_{\text{pool}} $中Top-K任务中按$ {J}_{\text{init}}\left(w\right) $归一化概率抽取任务$ w $ 8: $ {\mathrm{Q}}_{\text{pool}}\leftarrow {\mathrm{Q}}_{\text{pool}}\smallsetminus \left\{\mathrm{w}\right\} $ 9: if激活$ \mathrm{w} $满足物理排他约束式(13)、姿态机动约束式(14)及能量约束式(15) then 10: 激活对应基因位并更新卫星时间与能源状态 11: end if 12: end while; $ {\mathrm{P}}_{0}\leftarrow {\mathrm{P}}_{0}\cup \left\{\mathrm{x}\right\} $ 13:end for 14:return $ {\mathrm{P}}_{0} $ 2 自适应修复算子
输入:交叉或变异后产生的子代染色体$ x $,目标当前状态序列
$ {M}_{i}\left(t\right) $输出:修复后的染色体$ x $ 1: 提取$ x $中的已选任务集合$ S(x) $ 2: for 每个处于稳健跟踪模态的目标$ i $($ {M}_{i}\left(t\right)==1 $) do 3: 识别距离小于$ {D}_{\text{th}} $的局部冗余任务组 4: 保留$ {J}_{\text{init}} $最高的任务并取消其余任务 5: end for 6: 计算当前染色体的约束违背度$ CV(x) $ 7: while $ CV(x)> 0 $ do 8: 定位产生时域、姿态或能量违背的冲突任务集合 9: 取消其中$ {J}_{\text{init}} $最低的任务;更新资源状态与$ CV(x) $ 10: end while 11: return $ x $ -
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