Space Missions Engineering Laboratory

• Astrodynamics
• Space Robotics
• On-Board Autonomy
• Optimization
• Soft Computing
• Autonomous Navigation
  • Vision-Aided Autonomous Navigation
  • Path Planning Algorithms

Vision-Aided Autonomous Navigation

Our activities in this field are related to the development of Artificial Vision Algorithm for the following application: trajectory reconstruction of both descending vehicles and rovers; individuation of safe landing site on unknown celestial bodies; individuation of obstacles in rover navigation; reconstruction of 3D map of the environment for rover navigation; identification of interesting target.

Three images composed sequence of an environmental reconstruction