Optical navigation would be more than sufficient. Images of the Moon and the Earth against key stars, a clock, and a computer is all you need. Apollo had such a system as a backup, which was used to verify the ground tracking results. This is the Apollo sextant: [![Apollo sextant][1]][1] The definition of "autonomous" in the document is: > Autonomous: Ability of a space system to perform operations > independent from any Earth-based systems. This includes no > communication with, or real-time support from, mission control or > other Earth systems. So indeed the orbit determination would need to be possible using only on-board resources. Though you need to be able to _look_ at the Earth, so hopefully the Earth itself is not considered an Earth system. [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/5eD8X.jpg