Line-of-Sight Stabilization and High-Precision Target Tracking Technology of the Risley Prism System on Motion Platforms

The Risley prism system offers advantages such as compact structure and excellent dynamic performance, making it suitable for installation on static and motion platforms for target acquisition, aiming, and tracking. This paper presents a strapdown line-of-sight (LOS) stabilization method for the Ris...

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Main Authors: Huayang Xia, Hongfeng Xia, Jinying Li, Yunxia Xia, Yihan Luo, Liangzhu Yuan, Haotong Ma, Piao Wen, Wenna Yuan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-05-01
Series:Actuators
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0825/14/5/240
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Summary:The Risley prism system offers advantages such as compact structure and excellent dynamic performance, making it suitable for installation on static and motion platforms for target acquisition, aiming, and tracking. This paper presents a strapdown line-of-sight (LOS) stabilization method for the Risley prism system on motion platforms. The method establishes the coordinate transformation between the Risley prism and the motion platform. Real-time platform attitude angles from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) are used to compute the direction cosine matrix, which, combined with the coordinate transformation, determines the target’s actual guided position in the Risley prism’s coordinate. The Risley prism’s rotational angles are then calculated based on the target’s actual guided position to ensure LOS stability and capture the target. After LOS stabilization, an image-based closed-loop tracking cascade control system that integrates a Risley prism and a fast steering mirror with a single image detector (IBCLTCR-F), is used to enable fast and high-precision target tracking. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves disturbance rejection of −32.8 dB, −28.8 dB, and −17.3 dB for platform disturbances at 0.05 Hz, 0.2 Hz, and 0.5 Hz, respectively. Furthermore, compared to the Risley prism system, the IBCLTCR-F system improves the dynamic response capability of target tracking in the nonlinear region by a factor of 10 and reduces the tracking error by 70%.
ISSN:2076-0825