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Attitude determination of large non-cooperative spacecrafts in final approach


Abstract:

Due to failure of mechanisms to deploy, some large communication satellites lost their ability and resulted in huge economic cost. A space robotic system is expected to p...Show More

Abstract:

Due to failure of mechanisms to deploy, some large communication satellites lost their ability and resulted in huge economic cost. A space robotic system is expected to perform the on-orbit repairing mission. It is a tremendous challenge to navigate a space robot in final approach since the targets are generally non-cooperative. Rectangle features, which are common in the configuration of a satellite, can be chosen as the recognized objects. However, these characters are very large. Limited by the FOV (field of view), a monocular camera can not supply enough information of the rectangles. In this paper, a method based on monocular camera is proposed to determine the attitude of a large non-cooperative target using a partial rectangle. Firstly, the relationship of a rectangle and circular points by camera is derived and fused. Secondly, the attitude measurement algorithm is acquired from the constraint and a virtual rectangle is reconstructed. Lastly, the algorithm is verified by mathematic simulations which are very close to reality. The results show the validity and flexibility of the proposed method.
Date of Conference: 07-10 December 2010
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 04 February 2011
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Conference Location: Singapore

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