TR2024-139

Autonomous Horizon-Based Optical Navigation on Near-Planar Cislunar Libration Point Orbits

    •  Shimane, Y., Ho, K., Weiss, A., "Autonomous Horizon-Based Optical Navigation on Near-Planar Cislunar Libration Point Orbits", 4th Space Imaging Workshop, October 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-139 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Shimane2024oct,
      • author = {Shimane, Yuri and Ho, Koki and Weiss, Avishai}},
      • title = {Autonomous Horizon-Based Optical Navigation on Near-Planar Cislunar Libration Point Orbits},
      • booktitle = {4th Space Imaging Workshop},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = oct,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-139}
      • }
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    Computer Vision, Control, Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing

Abstract:

We study the use of horizon-based optical navigation on near-planar libration point orbits in cis- lunar space. Particularities that arise from the space- craft’s motion being nearly in-plane with the Sun’s motion around the Moon are highlighted. The performance is studied through extensive Monte-Carlo simulation using a synthetic image generation pipeline, feeding measurements at various user-defined time intervals to an ex- tended Kalman filter.