Trigo, Guilherme Fragoso and Maass, Bolko and Krüger, Hans and Theil, Stephan (2017) Hybrid Optical Navigation by Crater Detection for Lunar Pin-point Landing: Trajectories from Helicopter Flight Tests. 10th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems, 29 May - 02 Jun 2017, Salzburg, Austria.
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Abstract
Accurate autonomous navigation capabilities are essential for future lunar robotic landing missions with a pin-point landing requirement, since in the absence of direct line of sight to ground control during critical approach and landing phases, or when facing long signal delays the herein before mentioned capability is needed to establish a guidance solution to reach the landing site reliably. This paper focuses on the processing and evaluation of data collected from flight tests that consisted of scaled descent scenarios where the unmanned helicopter of approximately 85kg approached a landing site from altitudes of 50m down to 1m for a downrange distance of 200m. Printed crater targets were distributed along the ground track and their detection provided earth-fixed measurements. The Crater Navigation (CNav) algorithm used to detect and match the crater targets is an unmodified method used for real lunar imagery. We analyse the absolute position and attitude solutions of CNav obtained and recorded during these flight tests, and investigate the attainable quality of vehicle pose estimation using both CNav and measurements from a Tactical-grade Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). The navigation filter proposed for this end corrects and calibrates the high-rate inertial propagation with the less frequent crater navigation fixes through a closed-loop, loosely coupled hybrid set-up. Finally, the attainable accuracy of the fused solution is evaluated by comparison with the on-board ground-truth solution of a dual-antenna high-grade GNSS receiver. It is shown that the CNav is an enabler for building autonomous navigation systems with high quality and suitability for exploration mission scenarios.
Item URL in elib: | https://elib.dlr.de/112620/ | |||||||||||||||
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Document Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture) | |||||||||||||||
Title: | Hybrid Optical Navigation by Crater Detection for Lunar Pin-point Landing: Trajectories from Helicopter Flight Tests | |||||||||||||||
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Date: | 2017 | |||||||||||||||
Refereed publication: | No | |||||||||||||||
Open Access: | No | |||||||||||||||
Gold Open Access: | No | |||||||||||||||
In SCOPUS: | No | |||||||||||||||
In ISI Web of Science: | No | |||||||||||||||
Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||
Keywords: | optical navigation, crater detection, vision-based navigation, inertial navigation, loosely coupled, Kalman filter | |||||||||||||||
Event Title: | 10th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems | |||||||||||||||
Event Location: | Salzburg, Austria | |||||||||||||||
Event Type: | international Conference | |||||||||||||||
Event Dates: | 29 May - 02 Jun 2017 | |||||||||||||||
Organizer: | ESA | |||||||||||||||
HGF - Research field: | Aeronautics, Space and Transport | |||||||||||||||
HGF - Program: | Space | |||||||||||||||
HGF - Program Themes: | Space System Technology | |||||||||||||||
DLR - Research area: | Raumfahrt | |||||||||||||||
DLR - Program: | R SY - Space System Technology | |||||||||||||||
DLR - Research theme (Project): | R - Projekt ATON (old) | |||||||||||||||
Location: | Bremen | |||||||||||||||
Institutes and Institutions: | Institute of Space Systems > Navigation and Control Systems | |||||||||||||||
Deposited By: | Trigo, Guilherme Fragoso | |||||||||||||||
Deposited On: | 08 Jun 2017 10:28 | |||||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 28 Oct 2017 19:10 |
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