Real-time 3D vision solution for on-orbit autonomous rendezvous & docking

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6220, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ruel, S ^a   English, C ^a   Anctil, M ^a   Daly, J ^a   Smith, C ^a   Zhu, S ^a  

^a Neptec Design Group Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D; Docking; On orbit; Pose estimation; Rendezvous; Tracking; Triangulation; TriDAR

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DOCKING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRIANGULATION;

3D; ON ORBIT; POSE ESTIMATION; RENDEZVOUS; TRACKING; TRIDAR;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 33747335090     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.665354     Document Type: Conference Paper

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