Vision-Based and LiDAR-Based Navigation Systems for Spacecraft and Autonomous Vehicles
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensing and Imaging".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2023) | Viewed by 2523
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mechanical and thermal measurements; design of experimental tests and set-up for space systems; design of measurement systems based on vision systems and laser scanners; robotics; autonomous vehicles; uncertainty evaluation
Interests: design, realization, and qualification of instruments and mechanisms for space applications; machine-vision-based localization methods for rovers; pose estimation; simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM); active vision
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Interests: multi-robot SLAM; multimodal place recognition; learning-based localization and mapping approaches; multi-robot and mission coordination for long-term robotic autonomy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Contributions to this Special Issue are welcomed in the field of attitude and position measurement systems, in particular vision-based and LiDAR-based, for two main applications: the proximity navigation of spacecraft and the autonomous navigation of vehicles in unstructured environments.
The importance of relative navigation between satellites and spacecraft is continuously growing since the number of possible applications is increasing, for instance, the flight formation of a set of small satellites, rendezvous and docking for satellite maintenance or for end-of-life operations and space debris mitigation.
A growing interest for rover navigation in unstructured environments and, in particular, for in situ operations for planetary exploration is being demonstrated by several planned mobile robotic missions in the upcoming years, such as ESA Mars2020, NASA Mars2020, ROSCOSMOS Luna-25 and DLR/JAXA Mars Moons eXploration.
The main topics of this Special Issue are:
- Vision-based and LiDAR-based navigation and mapping for planetary robots;
- Vision-based and LiDAR-based relative navigation for flight formation or between a chaser and a target spacecraft (collaborative or non-collaborative; active or passive; known or unknown; provided with markers or markerless);
- Novel sensor setups and approaches for perception, navigation and interaction with an unstructured and GNSS-denied environment;
- Relative navigation techniques for rendezvous and docking maneuvers between spacecraft;
- Global and/or local map building in unstructured environments;
- Novel technologies for mapping, navigation and terrain analysis;
- Advances in the calibration procedures and techniques of mono- or multi-sensor systems for relative and absolute navigation;
- Instrumentation and measurements for the navigation of UAV in planetary environments;
- Sensor fusion techniques for aerospace applications;
- Metrological evaluation and characterization of Machine Learning approaches for the navigation of autonomous spacecraft and vehicles in space applications and planetary exploration.
Dr. Marco Pertile
Dr. Sebastiano Chiodini
Dr. Riccardo Giubilato
Guest Editors
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