Missions to solar system bodies must meet increasingly ambitious objectives requiring highly reliable “precision landing”, and “hazard avoidance” capabilities. To meet these needs, we have developed two lidar sensor systems that can be used individually or in concert depending on the mission requirements. One is Navigation Doppler Lidar (NDL) capable of providing vehicle precision vector velocity and ground-relative altitude and the other is an Imaging Flash Lidar for Terrain Relative Navigation and Hazard Detection and Avoidance. Using both lidar sensors together will enable landing anywhere and under any lighting condition. The NDL performance has been extensively characterized through numerous ground and aircraft flight tests and will be soon demonstrated on two lunar landing missions (mid-2023). The Flash Lidar performance is currently being assessed onboard a drone and will soon be tested on helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft platforms. This paper describes both lidar sensors and their expected operation on landing vehicles.


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    Titel :

    Demonstration of Lidar Sensors for Precision Safe Landing on Planetary Bodies


    Beteiligte:
    F. Amzajerdian (Autor:in) / A. Gragossian (Autor:in) / G. D. Hines (Autor:in) / N. A. Dostart (Autor:in) / G. Wilson (Autor:in) / P. F. Brewster (Autor:in) / A. Bulyshev (Autor:in) / J. M. Heppler (Autor:in) / D. K. Litton (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2023


    Format / Umfang :

    19 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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