no code implementations • 22 Jan 2024 • Michael Krause, Ava Thrasher, Priyal Soni, Liam Smego, Reuben Isaac, Jennifer Nolan, Micah Pledger, E. Glenn Lightsey, W. Jud Ready, John Christian
This paper documents the results from the highly successful Lunar flashlight Optical Navigation Experiment with a Star tracker (LONEStar).
1 code implementation • 11 Dec 2023 • Travis Driver, Andrew Vaughan, Yang Cheng, Adnan Ansar, John Christian, Panagiotis Tsiotras
This paper proposes the incorporation of techniques from stereophotoclinometry (SPC) into a keypoint-based structure-from-motion (SfM) system to estimate the surface normal and albedo at detected landmarks to improve autonomous surface and shape characterization of small celestial bodies from in-situ imagery.