4 papers
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…
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…
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…
Characterizing Satellite Geometry via Accelerated 3D Gaussian Splatting
Van Minh Nguyen, Emma Sandidge, Trupti Mahendrakar +1
The accelerating deployment of spacecraft in orbit have generated interest in on-orbit servicing (OOS), inspection of spacecraft, and active debris removal (ADR). Such missions req…