Range and velocity sensors based on lidar or radar with multiple beams are often used to measure the altitude and velocity, respectively, of a spacecraft above a targetbody. A difficulty that arises when navigating about small bodies such as asteroids or comets, is that the notion of altitude is largely obscured by the irregular shape of the target surface. This paper develops a method to incorporate the multibeam altimeter and Doppler velocimeter measurements into the on-board spacecraft state estimator by using information from a faceted shape model representation of the target body surface.
A Faceted Shape Model Approach to Altimetry and Velocimetry for Irregularly Shaped Bodies
AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit ; 2008 ; Honolulu, HI, United States
2008-08-18
Conference paper
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English
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