The ability to detect and locate obstacles using on-board sensors and modify the nominal trajectory is necessary for safe landing of an autonomous lander on Mars. This paper examines some of the issues in the location of objects using a sequence of images from a passive sensor, and describes a Kalman filter approach to improve the range estimation to obstacles. The filter is also used to track features in the images leading to a significant reduction of search effort in the feature extraction step of the algorithm. The lack of suitable flight imagery data presents a problem in the verification of concepts for obstacle detection. An experiment is designed to acquire a sequence of images along with sensor motion parameters and the range estimation results using this imagery are presented.
Kalman filter based range estimation for autonomous navigation using imaging sensors
IFAC Symposium ; 1989 ; Tsukuba, Japan
1990-01-01
Conference paper
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English
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