Experimental results for image-based geometrical reconstruction for spacecraft Rendezvous navigation with unknown and uncooperative target spacecraft

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Abstract

For both manned and autonomous space on-orbit servicing missions, the collision avoidance and motion prediction of the target objects are essential for a safe mission operation. Our approach assumes unknown and uncooperative target objects (spacecraft, space debris) and a camera only vision system. The target's 3D structure is reconstructed from a sparse point cloud extracted from a rendezvous-SLAM algorithm and processed by a RANSAC algorithm. Afterwards the 3D model can be used in a feedback manner for enhancing visual navigation processing tasks. The paper details the general concept and presents experimental results with camera image data from a spacecraft rendezvous simulator testbed.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2012
Pages5040-5045
Number of pages6
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesIEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
ISSN2153-0858

Conference

Title25th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems, IROS 2012
Duration7 - 12 October 2012
CityVilamoura, Algarve
CountryPortugal

External IDs

Scopus 84872360234

Keywords

Keywords

  • Autonomous, Navigation, On-Orbit Servicing, RANSAC, Reconstruction, Rendezvous, Space Robotics, Sparse Point Cloud