Multi-Granularity Modeling Method for Effectiveness Evaluation of Remote Sensing Satellites

Abstract

The effectiveness indicator system of remote sensing satellites includes various satellites capabilities. Effectiveness evaluation is the process of calculating these indicators in the digital world, involving many different physical parameters of multiple subsystems. Model-based simulation statistics method is the mainstream approach of effectiveness evaluation, and digital twin is currently the most advanced modeling method for simulation. The satellite digital twin model has the characteristics of multi-dynamic, multi-spatial scale and multi-physics field coupling, which gives rise to challenges related to the stiff problem of ordinary differential equations and multi-scale problem of partial differential equations to the calculation process of indicators. It is difficult to solve these problems by breakthroughs in numerical solution methods. This paper uses the sparsity of the satellite system to group each indicator of the effectiveness evaluation indicator system according to the change period. The satellite system model is decomposed into multiple modules according to the composition and structure, and a series of models with different simulation fidelity are established for each module. The optimization schemes for selecting model granularity when calculating indicators by group is given. Simulation results show that this approach considers the coupling between systems, grasps the main contradiction of indicator calculation and overcomes the loss of indicator accuracy caused by the separate calculation of each subsystem under the neglect of coupling in the traditional method. Additionally, it avoids the difficulty in numerical calculation caused by coupling, while simultaneously balancing the accuracy and efficiency of the model simulations.

Keywords

• digital twin
• remote sensing satellite
• effectiveness evaluation
• multi-granularity