Research Article

Lost-in-Space Star Identification Using Planar Triangle Principal Component Analysis Algorithm

Table 6

Comparison of the three algorithms (positional noise std. dev = 1 pixel, and magnitude noise std. dev = 0.5 Mv).

AlgorithmIdentification rateAverage identification timeMemory requirement (MB)

PTP96.79%3.28 ms0.784
-vector 94.91%7.63 ms0.537
Planar triangle93.25%583.75 ms178