Analysis of on-board hazard detection and avoidance for safe lunar landing

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Johnson, Andrew E ^a   Huertas, Andres ^a   Werner, Robert A ^a   Montgomery, James F ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM DESIGNS; AVOIDANCE TECHNOLOGY; DRIVING PARAMETER; GUIDANCE NAVIGATION AND CONTROL; HAZARD DETECTION; LUNAR SURFACES; SENSOR PERFORMANCES; VEHICLE CHARACTERISTICS;

LANDING; LUNAR LANDING; NASA; SENSORS; SIGNAL DETECTION; VEHICLES;

HAZARDS;

EID: 49349085437     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2008.4526301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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