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Artificial Intelligence for Terrain relative Navigation in Unknown Environment (ATENA)

Mon, 07/25/2022 - 12:26
Start Date: 
2021
Programme: 
Discovery
End Date: 
2022
Programme Reference: 
20-D-O-TEC-01
Country: 
Spain
Contractor: 
GMV
Status: 
Closed
Description: 

Space missions benefit greatly by the capability of the on-board GNC system to adapt rapidly to unknown environment. Autonomous vision-based navigation is a particular technology under implementation in several ESA missions. One of the most interesting applications in that field is the proximity operations around a small asteroid, like those in HERA.
The goal of this activity was to develop a navigation algorithm with the capability to fly over an unknown terrain and achieve better navigation performances than current vision-based techniques based on unknown feature tracking.

Application Domain: 
Exploration
Technology Domain: 
13 - Automation, Telepresence & Robotics
10 - Flight Dynamics and GNSS
9 - Mission Operation and Ground Data Systems
1 - On-board Data Subsystems
5 - Space System Control
Competence Domain: 
3-Avionic Systems
6-Life & Physical Science Payloads, Life Support, Robotics & Automation
8-Ground Systems and Mission Operations
Keywords: 
Automation
autonomous navigation
Asteroid
HERA
Artificial intelligence
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