Rendezvous lidar sensor system for terminal rendezvous, capture, and berthing to the international space station

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6958, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Allen, Andrew C M ^a   Langley, Christopher ^a   Mukherji, Raja ^a   Taylor, Allen B ^a   Umasuthan, Manickam ^a   Barfoot, Timothy D ^b  

^a MDA Consulting Limited Canada   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Berthing; Capture; Docking; GNC; Ladar; Lidar; Navigation; Proximity operations; Rendezvous; Sensor

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; CLOSED LOOP SYSTEMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DETECTORS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROFLUIDICS; MULTITASKING; OPTICAL RADAR; PORT TERMINALS; SCANNING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SENSORS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACE STATIONS; SPACECRAFT; SPECIFICATIONS; TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; VEHICLES;

(OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; CLOSED LOOP CONTROLS; COMPLETE SYSTEMS; DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES; ENGINEERING MODEL (EM); FEATURE SELECTION ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT SEARCH; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ITS); LID AR SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENT DELAYS; MISSION SOFTWARE; NEW METHODS; POSE TRACKING; RANGE ACQUISITION; RELATIVE NAVIGATION; SAFETY CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; SCANNING TIME; SENSOR SYSTEMS; SPACE VISION; TOOLS AND METHODS;

SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

EID: 44949209334     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.777208     Document Type: Conference Paper

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