In May 2008, the Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology (ALHAT) Project conducted a helicopter field test of a commercial flash lidar to assess its applicability to safe lunar landing. The helicopter flew several flights, which covered a variety of slant ranges and viewing angles, over man-made and natural lunar-like terrains. The collected data were analyzed to assess the performance of the sensor and the performance of two algorithms: Hazard Detection (HD) and Hazard Relative Navigation (HRN). The collected flash lidar data were also used to validate a high fidelity flash lidar software model used in ALHAT Monte Carlo simulations. The field test results, combined with prior simulation results, advanced the technology readiness level of the HD algorithm to TRL 5 and the HRN algorithm to TRL 4.


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    Title :

    Analysis of Flash Lidar Field Test Data for Safe Lunar Landing


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    2010 IEEE Aerospace Conference ; 2010 ; Big Sky, MT, United States


    Publication date :

    2010-03-06


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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