Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 54, Issue 5, 0510001(2025)

Transformer Light-curve Classifier Based Short-term Autonomous Recognition Technology for Asteroid

Kaiyu LEI1, Hairui SANG1, Xian SHI2, Lin LI1, Chunhui ZHAO1, and Yanpeng WU1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Beijing Institute of Control Engineering,China Academy of Space Technology,Beijing 100190,China
  • 2Shanghai Astronomical Observatory,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Shanghai 200030,China
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    Figures & Tables(15)
    Process of long-distance autonomous optical navigation of asteroid exploration mission
    Structure of Transformer and Transformer-encoder based light-curve classifier
    Asteroid light-curve simulator pipeline
    Asteroid shape model and simulated light-curve
    The DAMIT dataset light-curves process
    The loss and accuracy curve of validation datasets during training
    Lomb-Scargle analysis results of Bennu light-curve observation by OCAMS
    Lomb-Scargle analysis results of Stars light-curve observation by OCAMS
    Transformer classification results of Bennu light-curve observation by OCAMS
    Analysis of point-source motion in approach phase of OSIRIS-REx
    • Table 1. Optical navigation sensor parameter during simulating

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      Table 1. Optical navigation sensor parameter during simulating

      Parameter nameParameter name
      Field of view1.5°
      Static target sensitivity20Mag
      Image resolution3 840×5 120
      Integration time100 ms
    • Table 2. Stellar-nostellar classifier hyper-parameter

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      Table 2. Stellar-nostellar classifier hyper-parameter

      Hyper-parameter nameHyper-parameter descriptionValue
      num_layerNumber of transformer encoder layer2
      num_headerNumber of multi-headed attention heads1
      d_modelInternal dimension of transformer embeddings128
      dim_feedforwardDimension of dense feedforward layer1 024
      dropoutDropout applied to transformer encoder layers0.1
      l2_regL2 weight regularization parameter1.0
      lrLearning rate0.001
      batch_sizeTraining batch size in one step256
      optimizerTraining optimizerRAdam
      activationActivation functionrelu
      normalizationNormalization methodper_sample_minmax
      finetune_epochsNumber of fine tuning epochs400
    • Table 3. Stellar-nostellar classifier test result

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      Table 3. Stellar-nostellar classifier test result

      Target typePrecision/%Recall/%F1-score
      Stellar98.695.20.968
      Asteroid95.498.60.970
      Mean97.096.90.969
    • Table 4. OSIRIS-REx on-orbit light-curve classification result of Bennu

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      Table 4. OSIRIS-REx on-orbit light-curve classification result of Bennu

      Observe phaseLomb-scargleOur classifier
      Bennu Full Obs.No-stellarNo-stellar
      Bennu Short Obs. 1No-stellarNo-stellar
      Bennu Short Obs. 2StellarNo-Stellar
      Bennu Short Obs. 3StellarNo-Stellar
      Bennu Short Obs. 4No-stellarNo-stellar
      Bennu Short Obs. 5No-stellarNo-stellar
      Bennu Short Obs. 6StellarNo-Stellar
      Bennu Short Obs. 7StellarNo-Stellar
      Bennu Short Obs. 8StellarNo-Stellar
      Bennu Short Obs. 9No-stellarNo-stellar
      Bennu Short Obs. 10StellarStellar
      Bennu Short Obs. 11StellarNo-Stellar
      Bennu Short Obs. 12No-stellarNo-stellar
    • Table 5. OSIRIS-REx on-orbit light-curve classification result of Star No. 1

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      Table 5. OSIRIS-REx on-orbit light-curve classification result of Star No. 1

      Observe phaseLomb-scargleOur classifier
      Star No. 1 Full Obs.No-stellarStellar
      Star No. 1 Short Obs. 1StellarStellar
      Star No. 1 Short Obs. 2StellarStellar
      Star No. 1 Short Obs. 3No-stellarNo-stellar
      Star No. 1 Short Obs. 4No-stellarStellar
      Star No. 1 Short Obs. 5StellarNo-Stellar
      Star No. 1 Short Obs. 6StellarStellar
      Star No. 1 Short Obs. 7StellarStellar
      Star No. 1 Short Obs. 8StellarStellar
      Star No. 1 Short Obs. 9No-stellarStellar
      Star No. 1 Short Obs. 10StellarStellar
      Star No. 1 Short Obs. 11StellarStellar
      Star No. 1 Short Obs. 12No-stellarStellar
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    Kaiyu LEI, Hairui SANG, Xian SHI, Lin LI, Chunhui ZHAO, Yanpeng WU. Transformer Light-curve Classifier Based Short-term Autonomous Recognition Technology for Asteroid[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2025, 54(5): 0510001

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    Received: Nov. 19, 2024

    Accepted: Jan. 24, 2025

    Published Online: Jun. 18, 2025

    The Author Email: Yanpeng WU (wuyanpeng@gmail.com)

    DOI:10.3788/gzxb20255405.0510001

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