Tag: optical navigation
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Neural Space Navigator Camera in Action
Professor Michael Littman of Princeton University, who is a consultant on our Neural Space Navigator NASA Phase I SBIR, has the gimbaled camera in action! Check out the video. The high dynamic range camera is mounted on a pan/tilt mechanism that uses stepping motors with harmonic drives. Harmonic drives have zero backlash. The camera assembly…
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Optical Navigation for Geosynchronous Transfer Orbits
Optical navigation, using the Earth’s chord width and angles between nadir and stars, is an alternative to GPS based navigation for autonomous spacecraft. The Optical Navigation System, developed under a NASA contract, is well suited for this application. In the Spacecraft Control Toolbox, we provide an easy-to-use demo script in the 2014.1 release that shows…