An Autonomous Vision-Based Algorithm for Interplanetary Navigation

arXiv:2309.09590v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The surge of deep-space probes makes it unsustainable to navigate them with standard radiometric tracking. Self-driving interplanetary satellites represent a solution to this problem. In this work, a full vision-based navigation algorithm is built by combining an orbit determination method with an image processing pipeline suitable for interplanetary transfers of autonomous platforms. To increase the computational efficiency of the algorithm, a non-dimensional extended Kalman filter is selected as state estimator, fed by the positions of …

abstract algorithm arxiv astro-ph.im autonomous cs.cv driving image image processing navigation pipeline processing satellites self-driving solution space standard them tracking type vision work