Speaker
Dr
Marco Mammarella
(GMV)
Description
The Vision Based Navigation will be one of the key technologies in future ESA missions. The maturation of the technology is the essential issue required for acquiring confidence in this innovative and crucial navigation system. The discussion that GMV intend to present will be focused on the need of HW/SW co-design carried out to develop mature prototype bread-boarding and focused to reach the requirements of the GNC technology.
The fundamental step is to identify the real needs of the GNC in term of performance and frequency of operations taking into account Vision Based techniques available, the second step is to bring the initially developed and validated through simulation software to representative hardware where the Vision Based Navigation has to fulfil Real-Time performance maintaining the accuracy demonstrated in simulation. In this discussion GMV will bring as example the actual developments in AIM, PILOT, and CAM-PHOR-VNAV, emphasizing the different architectures and the requirements driving the selection of the architectures validation steps foreseen. Furthermore the problematics of using HW in the loop will be discussed.
