Image-based attitude determination of co-orbiting satellites using deep learning technologies

B Guthrie, M Kim, H Urrutxua, J Hare - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Active debris removal missions pose demanding guidance, navigation and control
requirements. We present a novel approach which adopts deep learning technologies to the …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal crater landmark selection based on optical navigation performance factors for planetary landing

XIU Yi, ZHU Shengying, XU Rui, LI Maodeng - Chinese Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Planetary craters are natural navigation landmarks that widely exist and are easily observed.
Optical navigation based on crater landmarks has become an important autonomous …

Model-based monocular 6-degree-of-freedom pose tracking for asteroid

H Tang, C Liu, Y Su, Q Wang, W Hu - Frontiers in Space …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
In this paper, we present a novel vision-based framework to track the 6-DoF pose of an
asteroid in real time with the 3D contour of the asteroid as a feature. During pose tracking, at …

Synthetic photometric landmarks used for absolute navigation near an asteroid

O Knuuttila, A Kestilä, E Kallio - The Aeronautical Journal, 2020 - cambridge.org
The need for autonomous location estimation in the form of optical navigation is an essential
requirement for forthcoming deep space missions. While crater-based navigation might work …

Enhancing autonomous vision-based navigation in space with deep learning technologies

B Guthrie - 2022 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
Due to the steadily increasing quantity of debris in orbit, active debris removal is widely
considered to be a necessary technology; however, no such missions have yet been flown …

A novel method for attitude and position determination of small body spacecraft based on opportunity feature region

N Zhang, S Zhu, R Xu - 2017 Chinese Automation Congress …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a scheme of small body autonomous optical navigation is presented which
takes the opportunity feature region (OFR) as the navigation characteristic, aiming at the …