Vision-based relative navigation system for autonomous proximity orbital operations

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Vision-based relative navigation system for autonomous proximity orbital operations

Matteo Forasassi, Giordana Bucchioni, Lorenzo Pollini

Abstract. The paper presents the research project of the author, focused on developing, implementing and testing a vision based relative navigation system for spacecraft. A temporal organization of the project is presented, with tasks assigned to each year of the PhD programme, while at the same time two main technical stages, “final” and “far” rendezvous are introduced together with their scientific objectives. Being an experimental work, the envisioned implementation of the system on COTS computing platforms is introduced as well as the experiments planned to gather real imagery to validate the algorithms. Finally, possible fields of application of the project are discussed.

Keywords
Autonomous Systems, Pose Estimation, Rendezvous, Vision-Based, CNN, Sounding Balloon, GNC

Published online 6/1/2024, 4 pages
Copyright © 2024 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA

Citation: Matteo Forasassi, Giordana Bucchioni, Lorenzo Pollini, Vision-based relative navigation system for autonomous proximity orbital operations, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 42, pp 150-153, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644903193-33

The article was published as article 33 of the book Aerospace Science and Engineering

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