Computer vision tasks for intelligent aerospace perception: An overview

HL Chen, QY Sun, FF Li, Y Tang - Science China Technological Sciences, 2024 - Springer
Computer vision tasks are crucial for aerospace missions as they help spacecraft to
understand and interpret the space environment, such as estimating position and …

Rapid abstraction of spacecraft 3d structure from single 2d image

TH Park, S D'Amico - AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper presents a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to simultaneously abstract the
3D structure of the target space resident object and estimate its pose from a single 2D …

Computer vision tasks for intelligent aerospace missions: An overview

H Chen, Q Sun, F Li, Y Tang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.06513, 2024 - arxiv.org
Computer vision tasks are crucial for aerospace missions as they help spacecraft to
understand and interpret the space environment, such as estimating position and …

Characterizing Satellite Geometry via Accelerated 3D Gaussian Splatting

VM Nguyen, E Sandidge, T Mahendrakar, RT White - Aerospace, 2024 - mdpi.com
The accelerating deployment of spacecraft in orbit has generated interest in on-orbit
servicing (OOS), inspection of spacecraft, and active debris removal (ADR). Such missions …

Leveraging Neural Radiance Fields for Pose Estimation of an Unknown Space Object during Proximity Operations

A Legrand, R Detry, C De Vleeschouwer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.12728, 2024 - arxiv.org
We address the estimation of the 6D pose of an unknown target spacecraft relative to a
monocular camera, a key step towards the autonomous rendezvous and proximity …

Pose Estimation and Neural Implicit Reconstruction Towards Non-Cooperative Spacecraft Without Offline Prior Information

B Han, C Wang, X Zhang, Z Zhao, Z Zhai… - … on Aerospace and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non-cooperative spacecraft pose estimation plays a crucial role in on-orbit servicing.
However, existing pose estimation methods often assume CAD models of target objects as …

Taking a PEEK into YOLOv5 for Satellite Component Recognition via Entropy-based Visual Explanations

M Meni, T Mahendrakar, OD Raney, RT White… - AIAA SCITECH 2024 …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
The escalating risk of collisions and the accumulation of space debris in Low Earth Orbit
(LEO) has reached critical concern due to the ever increasing number of spacecraft …

3D Mesh Model Generation from 2D Images for Small Furniture Items

MSM Kamel, RM Elmasry… - 2023 International Mobile …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The proposed 3D reconstruction system is a novel approach that takes a video input and
outputs a high-quality 3D mesh model that can be rendered and viewed through augmented …

[PDF][PDF] Capturing Tumbling Objects in Orbit with Adaptive Tube Model Predictive Control

A John Sabu - 2023 - escholarship.org
Since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, the amount of human-made orbital debris has
increased dramatically. The first two pieces of debris were the rocket stage that launched the …

AI-based guidance for spacecraft proximity operations around uncooperative targets

A Brandonisio - 2023 - politesi.polimi.it
In recent years, space research has heavily shifted its focus towards enhanced on-board
autonomy for spacecrafts' on-orbit servicing (OOS), which, together with the automatization …