[HTML][HTML] Feature-aided pose estimation approach based on variational auto-encoder structure for spacecrafts

LIU Yanfang, Z Rui, DU Desong, CAO Shuqing… - Chinese Journal of …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Real-time 6 Degree-of-Freedom (DoF) pose estimation is of paramount importance
for various on-orbit tasks. Benefiting from the development of deep learning, Convolutional …

Autonomous navigation of an asteroid orbiter enhanced by a beacon satellite in a high-altitude orbit

W Yin, Y Shi, L Shu, Y Gao - Astrodynamics, 2024‏ - Springer
This study aims to assess the autonomous navigation performance of an asteroid orbiter
enhanced using an inter-satellite link to a beacon satellite. Autonomous navigation includes …

Landmark database selection for vision-aided inertial navigation in planetary landing missions

C Xu, X Huang, M Li, D Wang - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Vision-aided inertial navigation (VAIN) system offers a means to enable high-accuracy
autonomous navigation for planetary landing. The VAIN system provides precise state …

A large-scale invariant matching method based on DeepSpace-ScaleNet for small celestial body exploration

M Fan, W Lu, W Niu, X Peng, Z Yang - Remote Sensing, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Small Celestial Body (SCB) image matching is essential for deep space exploration
missions. In this paper, a large-scale invariant method is proposed to improve the matching …

Distributed adaptive control of spacecraft formation near an asteroid with input quantization

Y Wu, S Wu, H Zhu, CJ Damaren, W Wang - Aerospace Science and …, 2025‏ - Elsevier
While the collaboration of multiple micro-spacecraft around an asteroid enables the
enhancement of geomorphologic information database, the limited storage and transmission …

Optimization of short-arc ellipse fitting with prior information for planetary optical navigation

J Hu, B Yang, F Liu, Q Zhu, S Li - Acta Astronautica, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Autonomous navigation technology has played an increasingly important role during
modern planetary exploration missions. The image-based optical navigation method is one …

Non-cooperative target attitude estimation method based on deep learning of ground and space access scene radar images

C Hou, R Zhang, K Yang, X Li, Y Yang, X Ma, G Guo… - Mathematics, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Determining the attitude of a non-cooperative target in space is an important frontier issue in
the aerospace field, and has important application value in the fields of malfunctioning …

STDSD: A Spacecraft Target Detection Framework Considering Similarity and Diversity

Y Liu, R Zhou, Z Yao, J She, N Qi - IEEE Transactions on …, 2025‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Benefiting from the development of deep learning and computer vision, object detection
performance has witnessed remarkable improvements in various domains recently …

Concurrent learning-based trajectory tracking control of a novel multi-node flexible lander for asteroid missions

J Chai, J Mei, Y Gong, W Wu, G Ma… - Aircraft Engineering and …, 2024‏ - emerald.com
Purpose Asteroids have the characteristics of noncooperative, irregular gravity and complex
terrain on the surface, which cause difficulties in successful landing for conventional landers …

Research on standardized feature positioning technology of motion amplitude based on intelligent vision

L Qiao, JCW Lin - Mobile Networks and Applications, 2022‏ - Springer
Traditional motion amplitude normalization technology cannot get the whole process of
motion amplitude in the time and space domain, and there is a big error in motion image …