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View article: Enhancing Fault-Tolerant Space Computing: Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) and Landing Vision System (LVS) Implementations on Next-Gen Multi-Core Processors
Enhancing Fault-Tolerant Space Computing: Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) and Landing Vision System (LVS) Implementations on Next-Gen Multi-Core Processors Open
Future planetary exploration missions demand high-performance, fault-tolerant computing to enable autonomous Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) and Lander Vision System (LVS) operations during Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL). This p…
View article: Autonomy in the Real-World: Autonomous Trajectory Planning for Asteroid Reconnaissance via Stochastic Optimization
Autonomy in the Real-World: Autonomous Trajectory Planning for Asteroid Reconnaissance via Stochastic Optimization Open
This paper presents the development and evaluation of an optimization-based autonomous trajectory planning algorithm for the asteroid reconnaissance phase of a deep-space exploration mission. The reconnaissance phase is a low-altitude flyb…
View article: Starshade formation flying I: optical sensing
Starshade formation flying I: optical sensing Open
A key challenge for starshades is formation flying. To successfully image exoplanets, the telescope boresight and starshade must be aligned to ~1 m at separations of tens of thousands of kilometers. This challenge has two parts: first, the…