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NASA NTRS2020

Golden Section Search for Single Beacon Homing

Exploration of Ocean Worlds requires a new type of mission to be developed, an ice penetrating submersible vehicle. Such a mission would present a number of new challenges, including long range autonomous under ice navigation. We have developed a method based on Golden Section Search for an AUV to home to a base station with a single range-only acoustic beacon and no absolute heading measurement capabilities. We demonstrate this method in simulation to home from 10km away to within 1km. Such capabilities would be required for a submersible to explore any substantial portion of the oceans on these Ocean Worlds.

Chien, Steve↗
NASA NTRS1997

An Overview of the Beacon Monitor Operations Technology

This paper summarizes the end-to-end design of a technology for low cost mission operations. Cost savings is achieved by reducing the total volume of downlinked engineering telemetry by decreasing the frequency of telemetry acquisition and the volume of data received per pass.

Cost Deep Space One Mission beacon monitor↗
NASA NTRS2001

Earth beacon acquisition and tracking under various illumination conditions

This paper develops an algorithm for determining the geocenter of the Earth regardless of the illumination by the sun using sub-pixel scanning and a simple thresholding technique. To complete this approach the acquisition algorithm is paired with a tracking technique based on maximum likelihood estimation.

beacon↗