Visual navigation chip for planetary landers

Martin Dunstan; Steve Parkes; Salvatore Mancuso

Visual navigation chip for planetary landers

Martin Dunstan, Steve Parkes, Salvatore Mancuso

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This paper describes an image processing chip developed by the University of Dundee to support vision-based navigation of a planetary lander. The chip detects features in an image and tracks them from one image frame to the next. It manages the list of feature points and their status. Information about tracked feature points is sent to a Guidance and Navigation Control (GNC) computer for integration with information from the Inertial Measurement Unit. The connection to the GNC computer is via two SpaceWire links. A third SpaceWire link is used to control the camera providing images to the image processing chip.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the DASIA 2005
Subtitle of host publication	DAta Systems in Aerospace
Place of Publication	Noordwijk
Publisher	European Space Agency
Pages	93-96
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	92-9092-913-8
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	Data Systems in Aerospace - Sheraton Grand Hotel, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 30 May 2005 → 2 Jun 2005

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Name	European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
Publisher	European Space Agency
Number	602
ISSN (Electronic)	1609-042X

Conference

Conference	Data Systems in Aerospace
Abbreviated title	DASIA 2005
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	30/05/05 → 2/06/05

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Dunstan, M., Parkes, S., & Mancuso, S. (2005). Visual navigation chip for planetary landers. In Proceedings of the DASIA 2005: DAta Systems in Aerospace (pp. 93-96). (European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP; No. 602). European Space Agency. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=yv4JPVwI&eid=2-s2.0-26944501628&md5=7efc3a5bea4de68bdfb4e8a8b2616bc6

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