Computer simulation of microparticle trajectories in a laboratory study of lunar dust dynamics

The hazardous effect of lunar dust on hardware and humans is one of the most problematic factors in the planning of automated and human missions to the Moon. To reduce and possibly eliminate this impact, studies of lunar dust dynamics under laboratory conditions are being conducted. The most promising methods for determining the motion parameters of dust particles in such studies are optical methods based on digital image processing. The aim of this work is to develop algorithm for simulation stereo images of the trajectories of microparticles of simulated lunar soil observed under laboratory conditions. The results of the simulation for choosing optimal parameters of particle trajectory imaging are presented. They can be used in further studies to exclude the influence of these parameters on the results of larger scale simulation to estimate the optimal parameters of the optical measurement system.