3 papers
cs.LG2026
Post-Launch Capability Expansion of Vision-Language Models via Prompting for On-Orbit Spacecraft Inspection
Nicholas A. Welsh, Lennon J. Shikhman, Monty Nehru Attazs +3
Spaceborne inspection systems often deploy perception models prior to launch, after which updating model weights or expanding fixed label sets becomes operationally impractical. Wh…
cs.CV2024
SpY: A Context-Based Approach to Spacecraft Component Detection
Trupti Mahendrakar, Ryan T. White, Madhur Tiwari
This paper focuses on autonomously characterizing components such as solar panels, body panels, antennas, and thrusters of an unknown resident space object (RSO) using camera feed…
cs.CV2024
SatSplatYOLO: 3D Gaussian Splatting-based Virtual Object Detection Ensembles for Satellite Feature Recognition
Van Minh Nguyen, Emma Sandidge, Trupti Mahendrakar +1
On-orbit servicing (OOS), inspection of spacecraft, and active debris removal (ADR). Such missions require precise rendezvous and proximity operations in the vicinity of non-cooper…