Argon is a flight-ready sensor suite with two visual cameras, a flash LIDAR, an on- board flight computer, and associated electronics. Argon was designed to provide sensing capabilities for relative navigation during proximity, rendezvous, and docking operations between spacecraft. A rigorous ground test campaign assessed the performance capability of the Argon navigation suite to measure the relative pose of high-fidelity satellite mock-ups during a variety of simulated rendezvous and proximity maneuvers facilitated by robot manipulators in a variety of lighting conditions representative of the orbital environment. A brief description of the Argon suite and test setup are given as well as an analysis of the performance of the system in simulated proximity and rendezvous operations.


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    Title :

    Pose Measurement Performance of the Argon Relative Navigation Sensor Suite in Simulated Flight Conditions


    Contributors:
    J. M. Galante (author) / J. V. Eepoel (author) / M. Strube (author) / N. Gill (author) / M. Gonzalez (author)

    Publication date :

    2012


    Size :

    26 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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