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 …

Attitude control system for the Mars Cube One spacecraft

D Sternberg, J Essmiller, C Colley… - 2019 IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
CubeSats are small spacecraft based on a 10cm by 10cm by 10cm (1U) cube standard that
have historically only been operated in Earth orbit. Mars Cube One (MarCO) is the first …

Variable-magnification optical stimulator for training and validation of spaceborne vision-based navigation

C Beierle, S D'Amico - Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper addresses the design, calibration, and utilization of a hardware-in-the loop
optical stimulator for the training and validation of vision-based sensors and algorithms used …

FEA based opto-mechanisms design and thermal analysis of a dynamic SFS with an ultra-long exit pupil distance

Y Pan, K Zhang, M Hu, Y Zhao, X Xu - Optics & Laser Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
The dynamic star field simulator (SFS) reproduces the actual operating conditions for the
star tracker (STR) to assess its performance along with the flight motion simulator (FMS) in …

Universal verification platform and star simulator for fast star tracker design

VH Schulz, GM Marcelino, LO Seman, J Santos Barros… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Develo** star trackers quickly is non-trivial. Achieving reproducible results and comparing
different algorithms are also open problems. In this sense, this work proposes the use of …

[PDF][PDF] RETINA: a Highly-Versatile Optical Facility for Camera-In-the-loop Testing of Spaceborne Vision-Based Sensors

F Ornati, P Panicucci, E Andreis… - 46th AAS Guidance …, 2024 - re.public.polimi.it
The increasing number of deep-space missions and the consequent saturation of the Deep-
Space Network navigation slots has sparked the interest in autonomous navigation …

Jet propulsion laboratory small satellite dynamics testbed planar air-bearing propulsion system characterization

JD Wapman, DC Sternberg, K Lo, M Wang… - Journal of Spacecraft …, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
The Small Satellite Dynamics Testbed (SSDT) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers
infrastructure that supports small satellite guidance and control testing in a relevant …

TINYV3RSE: the DART vision-based navigation test-bench

M Pugliatti, V Franzese, P Panicucci… - AIAA Scitech 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-1193. vid Image processing and
vision-based navigation algorithms require images for design, testing, and validation. For …

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 …

Systems Integration and Test of the Lunar Flashlight Spacecraft

N Cheek, C Gonzalez, P Adell, J Baker, C Ryan… - 2022 - digitalcommons.usu.edu
Lunar Flashlight is a 6U CubeSat launching in late 2022 or early 2023 that will search for
surface water ice content in permanently shadowed regions at the south pole of the Moon …