no code implementations • 20 Sep 2023 • Duarte Rondao, Lei He, Nabil Aouf
Cameras are rapidly becoming the choice for on-board sensors towards space rendezvous due to their small form factor and inexpensive power, mass, and volume costs.
no code implementations • 23 Aug 2021 • Duarte Rondao, Nabil Aouf, Mark A. Richardson
This paper presents an innovative deep learning pipeline which estimates the relative pose of a spacecraft by incorporating the temporal information from a rendezvous sequence.
no code implementations • 19 Aug 2021 • Jianing Song, Duarte Rondao, Nabil Aouf
Autonomous spacecraft relative navigation technology has been planned for and applied to many famous space missions.
no code implementations • 28 May 2021 • Maxwell Hogan, Duarte Rondao, Nabil Aouf, Olivier Dubois-Matra
Recent interest in on-orbit servicing and Active Debris Removal (ADR) missions have driven the need for technologies to enable non-cooperative rendezvous manoeuvres.
no code implementations • 14 May 2020 • Duarte Rondao, Nabil Aouf, Mark A. Richardson, Vincent Dubanchet
In this paper, an innovative model-based approach is instead demonstrated to estimate the six-dimensional pose of a target object relative to the chaser spacecraft using solely a monocular setup.