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With the aid of the spacecraft orbital dynamics, a single pair of PP and DF relative to the spacecraft\u2019s state estimation error can be estimated by using the joint probability density function of the arrival photon timestamps as the likelihood function. The systematic biases involved to the PP is proved to be nearly invariant over two adjacent navigation periods and the major part of it is eliminated in the DPP; therefore, the DPP is also exploited as additional navigation measurement to weaken the impact of systematic biases on navigation accuracy. Results of photon-level simulations show that the navigation accuracy of the proposed method is remarkably better than that of the method only using PP, the method using both PP and DF and the method using both PP and DPP for Earth orbit.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19081877","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,22]],"date-time":"2019-04-22T03:15:53Z","timestamp":1555902953000},"page":"1877","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["X-Ray Pulsar-Based Navigation Considering Spacecraft Orbital Motion and Systematic Biases"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Mengfan","family":"Xue","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Xiasha Higher Education Zone, 2nd Street, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yifang","family":"Shi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Xiasha Higher Education Zone, 2nd Street, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yunfei","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Xiasha Higher Education Zone, 2nd Street, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Na","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Xiasha Higher Education Zone, 2nd Street, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Dongliang","family":"Peng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Xiasha Higher Education Zone, 2nd Street, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ji\u2019an","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Xiasha Higher Education Zone, 2nd Street, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Han","family":"Shentu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Xiasha Higher Education Zone, 2nd Street, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2685-7876","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhikun","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Xiasha Higher Education Zone, 2nd Street, Hangzhou 310018, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"408","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1186683","article-title":"Switched Magnetospheric Regulation of Pulsar Spin-Down","volume":"329","author":"Lyne","year":"2010","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4484","DOI":"10.1109\/TSP.2010.2050479","article-title":"On modeling and pulse phase estimation of X-ray pulsars","volume":"58","author":"Emadzadeh","year":"2010","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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