Chinese Optics, Volume. 18, Issue 3, 641(2025)

Echo state network-based data recovery method for low-low satellite-to-satellite tracking missions in laser interferometry

Hong JIANG1,2,3,4, Zhen-dong YAO1,2,3,4, Li-wei YANG2, Peng XU1,3,4,5、*, and Li'e QIANG2
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  • 1School of Fundamental Physics and Mathematical Science, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS, Hangzhou 310024, China
  • 2National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 4Center for Gravitational Wave Experiment, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 5Lanzhou Center for Theoretical Physics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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    As a follow-on mission to the GRACE low-low satellite-to-satellite tracking gravity mission, one of the twin satellites of laser ranging interferometer gravity mission GRACE Follow-On experienced an anomaly in its accelerometer payload after one month of operation. This anomaly resulted in the loss of scientific measurement data, a situation similar to the final phase of the GRACE. Therefore, research on accelerometer data recovery is important to achieve the detection objectives of both GRACE and GRACE Follow-On. This paper proposes a novel method for accelerometer data recovery and reconstruction based on the Echo State Network in machine learning. By constructing a mapping relationship of accelerometer data between the twin satellites using the Echo State Network and improving the network performance through Bayesian optimization, this method can achieve high-precision and high-efficiency reconstruction of missing accelerometer data. Through experimental comparison with measured data, in the frequency band of gravity field detection, the prediction results in the along-track and radial directions have been shown to reach the level of $ {10}^{-8} $ m∙s-2/$ \sqrt{\mathrm{Hz}} $. In the cross-track direction, the results reach levels between $ {10}^{-8}$ m∙s-2/$ \sqrt{\mathrm{Hz}} $~${10}^{-7} $ m∙s-2/$\sqrt{\mathrm{Hz}} $. This reconstruction accuracy is comparable to, or even partially superior to, the official GRACE data transplant accuracy, making it preliminarily applicable to gravity field inversion. This research achieves high-precision accelerometer data recovery for low-low satellite-to-satellite tracking missions using machine learning methods.

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    Hong JIANG, Zhen-dong YAO, Li-wei YANG, Peng XU, Li'e QIANG. Echo state network-based data recovery method for low-low satellite-to-satellite tracking missions in laser interferometry[J]. Chinese Optics, 2025, 18(3): 641

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    Category: Special Column on Space-based Gravitational Wave Detection

    Received: Sep. 29, 2024

    Accepted: Dec. 17, 2024

    Published Online: Jun. 16, 2025

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    DOI:10.37188/CO.2024-0177

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