Satellite Telemetry Data Anomaly Detection using Multiple Factors and Co-Attention based LSTM

Published: 2023, Last Modified: 12 Jan 2026WCNC 2023EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Telemetry data is an important resource to detect anomaly of satellites in orbit. In recent years, the telemetry data-driven satellite anomaly detection has drawn great attention from academia and industries. However, in prior arts, the time-or frequency-domain data feature is usually separately utilized; and, to reduce the compute complexity, a small portion of data dimensions are usually selected from the telemetry data manually, leading to reduction in detection accuracy. Motivated by this, we propose a novel satellite telemetry data anomaly detection approach using high-dimension telemetry data, and the Multiple Factors and Co-Attention based LSTM (MFCA-LSTM) model. Specifically, to achieve an accurate prediction of telemetry sequence, we first propose the MFCA-LSTM model, jointly considering the time- and frequency-domain data feature, and the auxiliary information, e.g., telecommand and mission planning. Then, by using the MFCA-LSTM model, we construct a two-level anomaly detection framework to efficiently detect full-dimension data; and, to improve the accuracy rate and reduce the false alarm rate, we further propose an adaptive Tukey test algorithm to determine the dynamic thresholds. Finally, we perform extensive experiments based on two real-world datasets, and the results testify the effectiveness of our proposed framework.
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