The Milani mission: overview and architecture of the optical-based GNC system

M Pugliatti, A Rizza, F Piccolo, V Franzese… - AIAA Scitech 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-2381. vid Milani is a 6U CubeSat
that will be part of the Hera mission around the Didymos binary system. Its objectives are …

The TinyV3RSE Hardware-in-the-Loop Vision-Based Navigation Facility

P Panicucci, F Topputo - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The increase in number of interplanetary probes has emphasized the need for spacecraft
autonomy to reduce overall mission costs and to enable riskier operations without ground …

[HTML][HTML] CNN-based Image Processing algorithm for autonomous optical navigation of Hera mission to the binary asteroid Didymos

A Kaluthantrige, J Feng, J Gil-Fernández - Acta Astronautica, 2023 - Elsevier
Hera mission is the European Space Agency's contribution to the international collaboration
with NASA for the planetary defence, ie Asteroid Impact Deflection Assessment aiming to …

[HTML][HTML] The vision-based guidance, navigation, and control system of Hera's Milani Cubesat

M Pugliatti, F Piccolo, A Rizza, V Franzese, F Topputo - Acta Astronautica, 2023 - Elsevier
Milani is a 6U CubeSat that will be released in the Didymos binary asteroid system by ESA's
Hera spacecraft. Its objectives are to study and characterize the system's asteroids, thus …

Toward verification and validation of the Milani Image Processing pipeline in the hardware-in-the-loop testbench TinyV3RSE

F Piccolo, M Pugliatti, P Panicucci… - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2022 - Springer
Verification and validation is an essential step for image processing and visionbased
navigation algorithms. Typically these algorithms are designed mainly with synthetic images …

[PDF][PDF] Mission Analysis and Navigation Assessment for Hera's Milani CubeSat

C Bottiglieri, F Piccolo, A Rizza, M Pugliatti… - 4S …, 2022 - re.public.polimi.it
Hera is the European contribution to the ESA-NASA collaboration AIDA. During the mission,
two CubeSats will be released in proximity of the binary asteroid 65803-Didymos: Milani and …

TINYV3RSE: THE DART VISION-BASED NAVIGATION TEST BENCH

P Panicucci, M Pugliatti, V Franzese… - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2022 - Springer
Image processing and vision-based navigation algorithms require images for design,
testing, and validation. For space exploration purposes, it is complex if not impossible to …

[PDF][PDF] Hardware-in-the-loop simulation framework for cubesats proximity operations: Application to the milani mission

A Rizza, F Piccolo, M Pugliatti, P Panicucci… - INTERNATIONAL …, 2022 - re.public.polimi.it
Milani is a 6U CubeSat that will be released by Hera in proximity of the Didymos binary
asteroid. The spacecraft will demonstrate autonomous Guidance Navigation and Control …

[PDF][PDF] Goal-Oriented Guidance Strategy for Binary Asteroid Exploration: Investigation of Different Metrics

A Rizza, C Giordano, F Topputo - 45th AAS Guidance …, 2023 - re.public.polimi.it
Operations in proximity of minor bodies demands high levels of autonomy to achieve cost-
effective safe and reliable solutions. Autonomous path and operations planning capability …

[PDF][PDF] The image processing of Milani: challenges after DART impact

M Pugliatti, C Giordano, F Topputo - … Conference on Guidance …, 2023 - re.public.polimi.it
ABSTRACT The Milani CubeSat mission aims to observe and study the Didymos binary
system after deployment from the Hera mothercraft. The image processing of Milani uses …