The high-performance and reconfiguration capabilities offered by the new European FPGA technology can be leveraged in planetary exploration scenarios, where rover autonomy relies on multiple diverse and computationally intensive algorithms for Computer Vision. A number of HW/SW pipelines for rover localization and mapping were developed on Xilinx technology during past ESA activities...
Vison-based navigation systems make use of image processing algorithms which are very computationally demanding in terms of memory and processing load.
In space domain the development of robust and efficient vision-based navigation systems is a key point to implementing autonomous navigation systems used in space exploration, active debris removal and rover vehicles. However, the tight...
Forward Error Correction (FEC) is a mission critical onboard data processing task, providing continuous and reliable data transfers to ground stations even at low Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) regimes.
The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) has standardized a number of protograph-based Quasi-Cyclic Low-Density Parity-Check (QC-LDPC) codes for deep-space (AR4JA) and...
The Wide-Field-Imager (WFI) instrument onboard ATHENA will be based on x-ray detectors that are read-out by frame processor modules. The core component of these modules is a Microchip RTG4 FPGA. For the last four years, the WFI team has been developing implementations that allow real-time processing of data streams. Further, we have investigated the use of softcores that can be implemented as...
The Photospheric Magnetic Field Imager (PMI) will be one of the payload instruments onboard the Lagrange mission. It will provide magnetograms and tachograms of the solar photospheric plasma as valuable information for being used in space weather diagnostics. The Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager onboard Solar Orbiter (SO/PHI) is the major heritage instrument for PMI. Its DPU, however, does...
