[HTML][HTML] A survey on deep learning-based monocular spacecraft pose estimation: Current state, limitations and prospects

L Pauly, W Rharbaoui, C Shneider, A Rathinam… - Acta Astronautica, 2023 - Elsevier
Estimating the pose of an uncooperative spacecraft is an important computer vision problem
for enabling the deployment of automatic vision-based systems in orbit, with applications …

Challenges for monocular 6d object pose estimation in robotics

D Bauer, P Hönig, JB Weibel… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Object pose estimation is a core perception task that enables, for example, object
manipulation and scene understanding. The widely available, inexpensive, and high …

Robust multi-task learning and online refinement for spacecraft pose estimation across domain gap

TH Park, S D'Amico - Advances in Space Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract This work presents Spacecraft Pose Network v2 (SPNv2), a Convolutional Neural
Network (CNN) for pose estimation of noncooperative spacecraft across domain gap. SPNv2 …

Adaptive neural-network-based unscented kalman filter for robust pose tracking of noncooperative spacecraft

TH Park, S D'Amico - Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper presents a neural-network-based unscented Kalman filter (UKF) to estimate and
track the pose (ie, position and orientation) of a known, noncooperative, tumbling target …

Online supervised training of spaceborne vision during proximity operations using adaptive kalman filtering

TH Park, S D'Amico - 2024 IEEE International Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents an Online Supervised Training (OST) method to enable robust vision-
based navigation about a non-cooperative spacecraft. Spaceborne Neural Networks (NN) …

[HTML][HTML] Leveraging neural network uncertainty in adaptive unscented Kalman Filter for spacecraft pose estimation

LP Cassinis, TH Park, N Stacey, S D'Amico… - Advances in Space …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper introduces an adaptive Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based Unscented
Kalman Filter for the pose estimation of uncooperative spacecraft. The validation is carried …

[HTML][HTML] Robust spacecraft relative pose estimation via CNN-aided line segments detection in monocular images

M Bechini, G Gu, P Lunghi, M Lavagna - Acta Astronautica, 2024 - Elsevier
Autonomous spacecraft relative navigation via monocular images became a hot topic in the
past few years and, recently, received a further push thanks to the constantly growing field of …

The OPS-SAT case: A data-centric competition for onboard satellite image classification

G Meoni, M Märtens, D Derksen, K See, T Lightheart… - Astrodynamics, 2024 - Springer
While novel artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques are evolving and
disrupting established terrestrial technologies at an unprecedented speed, their adaptation …

[HTML][HTML] Feature-aided pose estimation approach based on variational auto-encoder structure for spacecrafts

LIU Yanfang, Z Rui, DU Desong, CAO Shuqing… - Chinese Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Real-time 6 Degree-of-Freedom (DoF) pose estimation is of paramount importance
for various on-orbit tasks. Benefiting from the development of deep learning, Convolutional …

Lessons from a space lab: an image acquisition perspective

L Pauly, ML Jamrozik, MO Del Castillo… - International Journal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The use of deep learning (DL) algorithms has improved the performance of vision‐based
space applications in recent years. However, generating large amounts of annotated data …