Single crater-aided inertial navigation for autonomous asteroid landing |
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Authors: | Meng Yu Shuang Li Shuquan Wang Xiangyu Huang |
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Institution: | 1. College of Astronautics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China;2. Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100094 Beijing, China;3. Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, Beijing 100190, China |
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Abstract: | In this paper, a novel crater-aided inertial navigation approach for autonomous asteroid landing mission is developed. It overcomes the major deficiencies of existing approaches in the literature, which mainly focuses on the case where craters are abundant in the camera field of view. As a result, traditional crater based methods require at least three craters to achieve crater matching, which limits their application in final landing phase where craters are scarce in the camera’s field of view. In contrast, the proposed algorithm enables single crater based crater matching based on a novel 2D-3D crater re-projection model. The re-projection model adopts inertial measurements as a reference, and re-projects the 3D crater model onto descent images to achieve the matching to its counterpart. An asteroid landing simulation toolbox is developed to validate the performance of the proposed approach. Through comparison with the state-of-the-art local image feature and crater based navigation algorithms, the proposed approach is validated to achieve a competitive performance in terms of feature matching and pose estimation accuracy with a much lighter computational cost. |
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Keywords: | Crater detection and matching Re-projection model Asteroid landing Autonomous navigation |
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