Conveners
AOCS/GNC - Validation and Verification Facilities
- Alvaro Martinez Barrio (ESA)
- Piotr Wenderski
Future space systems will heavily rely on autonomous Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) functions to efficiently manage safe and precise self-directed operations in uncertain complex environments. Fundamentally, the GNC system plays a key role in mission performance and safety. Our current GNC systems are already highly automated and complex. The trend is for missions to become more...
The Space Rider (SR) programme aims to provide Europe with a reusable system for routine access to low Earth orbit. A critical component of this programme is the Re-entry Module (RM), which consists of a lifting body that, starting from orbital coasting, performs a controlled hypersonic re-entry, transonic flight, and a final precision approach and landing under parafoil. The SR RM is being...
Ground-test facility for CubeSats attitude determination and control: the University of Bologna experience
Department of Industrial Engineering and Interdepartmental Centre for Industrial Research in Aerospace - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Via Fontanelle 40 47121 Forlì (Italy) e-mail: dario.modenini@unibo.it
With the rapid increase in the number of nanosatellites in orbit,...
CORTO: A Collaborative Rendering Library for Space Applications
The Celestial Objects Rendering Tool (CORTO) is an open-access, object-oriented Python repository that leverages Blender’s capabilities to synthetically generate large, annotated datasets for computer vision tasks. Designed with modularity and accessibility as core strengths, CORTO aims to facilitate collaboration among...
Verification and validation of optical navigation algorithms and sensors in TRON
Hans Krüger, GNC Systems department, DLR Institute of Space Systems, Bremen
The Testbed for robotic optical navigation (TRON) is a Hardware-in-the-Loop Test (HiLT) facility for optical navigation technology. For imaging-based sensors TRON provides an environment that allows developing and qualifying such...
Event-based sensor simulation for space applications in real-time
Manuel Sanchez Gestido (Guidance, Navigation and Control Section – ESTEC)
Vision-based framing sensors are well-established in the space community as a critical component of guidance, navigation and control (GNC) systems for autonomous spacecraft navigation and landing. Event-based sensors, on the contrary, detect...
