[PDF] Top 20 Autonomous navigation of spacecraft formations for asteroid exploration

... of spacecraft orbiting in the vicinity of the NEO, each equipped with a smaller concentrator assembly capable of focusing the solar power at adistance around 1 km and ...of spacecraft flying in the ... See full document

... Apollo asteroid discovered on April 11, 1996, that is the target of the AIDA ...an asteroid is in itself a challenging task due to the complex dynamics induced by the irregular gravity field of the ... See full document

... There is a growing interest in using nanosatellites (like CubeSats) beyond LEO. From the pro- posed NASA Mars mission MarCO 1 to more recent missions studies for CubeSats to the Moon and asteroids, the goal is to achieve ... See full document

... 17. Asteroid estimate a) position and b) velocity error in 7 days combined on-board optical observation measurements with ground station observation and Sun ...two spacecraft are very close as in ... See full document

... In the presented paper problems of a software implementation of a ground- based and on board part of an autonomous system of short-range radio navigation of aerial vehicle are discussed. Operation stages of ... See full document

... ABSTRACT: In this paper, design of a low cost autonomous vehicle based on neural network for navigation in unknown environments is presented. The vehicle is equipped with four ultrasonic sensors for hurdle ... See full document

... In this article we extend the study by assessing the feasibility of a multi-spacecraft constellation to be placed on a Distant Retrograde Orbit. PHAs monitoring capabilities are measured in terms of the coverage ... See full document

... an autonomous navigation system that guided a rice transplanter working along predetermined paths in the ...developed autonomous navigation system was also suitable for other agricultural ... See full document

... tracker spacecraft equipped with a short-range vision system that must visually iden- tify a target and determining its relative angular veloc- ity and relative linear velocity using only visual informa- tion from ... See full document

... two spacecraft in combination with the time and frequency difference of the received signal are sufficient to estimate the position and velocity with re- spect to the known ... See full document

... real-time navigation of the tractor body can be satisfied as long as the tractor speed no more than ...visual navigation of the vehicle body when the course deviation is greater than ... See full document

... wheelchair is a challenging task, especially for dependent individuals with movement disabilities. A solution to improve user’s mobility is to implement an autonomous navigation algorithm on powered ... See full document

... Issues related to Path Planning have been widely studied and discussed by many researchers [7-10]. The research area of keen interest, for path planning in robotics, has been robotic manipulators and autonomous ... See full document

... Ultrasonic sensors have been introduced in some studies for plant recognition to navigate the mobile robot in agricultural environments. However, their use is restricted in outdoor application since they require the ... See full document

... This chapter will present the literature reviews relevant to this project. It includes microcontroller, language of the microcontroller programming, sensor, motor, communication and wireless, and interfacing between ... See full document

... CRFBP. Using the thrust propulsion our spacecraft can create artificial equilibrium points suitable for Asteroid observation missions. In addition a subset of these novel equilibrium points are proved to be ... See full document

... boundary navigation line extraction is configured as follows: 64-bit Windows 10 operating system, 8G memory, and a 2-core processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200H CPU @ ...the navigation algorithm was used for ... See full document

... predetermined formations as ...possible formations, the formations can be generated on-board from a set of elementary ...The formations can be generating by superimposing elementary ... See full document

... creation of the PSB, on the basis of sufficient. In example, the Earth to Mars takes relative positions of the of approach to an decision chain could of intercepting the the TB predicts the of nature into one due to the ... See full document

... Assumption 1 ensures that the initial state is feasible. Assumption 2 ensures that, for sufficiently long prediction horizons, if constraints are satisfied up to the horizon, they will remain satisfied afterward as long ... See full document