Landing hazard detection and avoidance technology is being pursued within NASA to improve landing safety and increase access to sites of interest on the lunar surface. The performance of a hazard detection and avoidance system depends on properties of the terrain, sensor performance, algorithm design, vehicle characteristics and the overall all guidance navigation and control architecture. This paper analyzes the size of the region that must be imaged, sensor performance parameters and the impact of trajectory angle on hazard detection performance. The analysis shows that vehicle hazard tolerance is the driving parameter for hazard detection system design.


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    Title :

    Analysis of On-board Hazard Detection and Avoidance for Safe Lunar Landing


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    2008 IEEE Aerospace Conference ; 2008 ; Big Sky, MT, United States


    Publication date :

    2008-03-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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