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DreamSat-Bench: Development and Initial Testing of a Testbed for AI-Based Pose Estimation from 3D Reconstruction
Alex Posadas-Nava, August Berne, Giovanni Lavezzi +8
This paper presents the development and initial testing of DreamSat-Bench, a modular rendezvous and proximity operation testbed designed to benchmark AI-based relative navigation t…
Dynamical evolution and surface accretion of DART impact ejecta in the (65803) Didymos system
Xiaoyu Fu, Nicolo Stronati, Stefania Soldini +6
The DART spacecraft impacted Dimorphos, the small moonlet of Didymos binary system, on 26 September 2022. The impact ejected dust, fragments, and boulders into the near-binary envi…
DreamSat-Pose: Spacecraft Pose Estimation from Single-View 3D Reconstructions and Learned 2D-3D Feature Matching
Josiane Uwumukiza, Jocelyn Zhao, Giovanni Lavezzi +5
6-DoF pose estimation is a critical task in autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations. In the case of an unknown target, this task becomes challenging as it shall be paired wi…
Modular pipeline for small bodies gravity field modeling: an efficient representation of variable density spherical harmonics coefficients
Antonio Rizza, Carmine Buonagura, Paolo Panicucci +1
Proximity operations to small bodies, such as asteroids and comets, demand high levels of autonomy to achieve cost-effective, safe, and reliable Guidance, Navigation and Control (G…
RETINA: a hardware-in-the-loop optical facility with reduced optical aberrations
Paolo Panicucci, Fabio Ornati, Francesco Topputo
The increasing interest in spacecraft autonomy and the complex tasks to be accomplished by the spacecraft raise the need for a trustworthy approach to perform Verification & Valida…
High-accuracy Vision-Based Attitude Estimation System for Air-Bearing Spacecraft Simulators
Fabio Ornati, Gianfranco Di Domenico, Paolo Panicucci +1
Air-bearing platforms for simulating the rotational dynamics of satellites require highly precise ground truth systems. Unfortunately, commercial motion capture systems used for th…
An Autonomous Vision-Based Algorithm for Interplanetary Navigation
Eleonora Andreis, Paolo Panicucci, Francesco Topputo
The surge of deep-space probes makes it unsustainable to navigate them with standard radiometric tracking. Self-driving interplanetary satellites represent a solution to this probl…
Characterization of the ejecta from NASA/DART impact on Dimorphos: observations and Monte Carlo models
Fernando Moreno, Adriano Campo Bagatin, Gonzalo Tancredi +26
The NASA/DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft successfully crashed on Dimorphos, the secondary component of the binary (65803) Didymos system. Following the impact, a…
An Image Processing Pipeline for Autonomous Deep-Space Optical Navigation
Eleonora Andreis, Paolo Panicucci, Francesco Topputo
A new era of space exploration and exploitation is fast approaching. A multitude of spacecraft will flow in the future decades under the propulsive momentum of the new space econom…
Vision-Based Estimation of Small Body Rotational State during the Approach Phase
Paolo Panicucci, Jérémy Lebreton, Roland Brochard +2
The heterogeneity of the small body population complicates the prediction of small body properties before the spacecraft's arrival. In the context of autonomous small body explorat…
Image simulation for space applications with the SurRender software
Jérémy Lebreton, Roland Brochard, Matthieu Baudry +9
Image Processing algorithms for vision-based navigation require reliable image simulation capacities. In this paper we explain why traditional rendering engines may present limitat…