3 papers
cs.RO2026
BEVIO: Efficient Bird's-Eye-View based Sparse-Update Visual-Inertial Odometry for Lunar Day-Night Navigation
Mohit Singh, Shehryar Khattak, Ashish Goel +3
Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) provides smooth, high-rate state estimates and has been widely used for robotic navigation in both terrestrial and planetary applications. However, i…
cs.CV2025
PoleStack: Robust Pole Estimation of Irregular Objects from Silhouette Stacking
Jacopo Villa, Jay W. McMahon, Issa A. D. Nesnas
We present an algorithm to estimate the rotation pole of a principal-axis rotator using silhouette images collected from multiple camera poses. First, a set of images is stacked to…
physics.space-ph2024
Autonomy in the Real-World: Autonomous Trajectory Planning for Asteroid Reconnaissance via Stochastic Optimization
Kazuya Echigo, Abhishek Cauligi, Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay +4
This paper presents the development and evaluation of an optimization-based autonomous trajectory planning algorithm for the asteroid reconnaissance phase of a deep-space explorati…