Docking Target Design And Spacecraft Tracking System Stability

Joseph G. Bailey; Richard A. Messner

doi:10.1117/12.969795

1 March 1990 Docking Target Design And Spacecraft Tracking System Stability

Joseph G. Bailey, Richard A. Messner

Proceedings Volume 1192, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision VIII: Algorithms and Techniques; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.969795
Event: 1989 Symposium on Visual Communications, Image Processing, and Intelligent Robotics Systems, 1989, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract

Researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center wish to provide automatic docking capabilities to spacecraft whose only guidance signals are the images of docking targets. The proposed docking system exploits the invariant properties of log-polar and cartesian image mapping in an iterative tracking scheme that uses correlation filtering. In trade for the beneficial invariance properties of the image transforms, their sensitivity to certain tracking disturbances can cause instability and loss of tracking. This paper presents simulation studies to determine how different classes of simple target patterns affect the stability of the tracking system. The main goal is to determine empirical guidelines for designing targets that optimize tracking performance.

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Joseph G. Bailey and Richard A. Messner "Docking Target Design And Spacecraft Tracking System Stability", Proc. SPIE 1192, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision VIII: Algorithms and Techniques, (1 March 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.969795

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