Terrain Relative Navigation methods require surface feature detectors to gain information from images used to improve on-board state estimates. This paper presents the development of a crater detection method based on Machine Learning that can extract data from optical images with different crater shapes and sizes, under varying lighting conditions. This work includes an automated capability for generating labeled training data and iterative testing of the neural network-based crater detector. Preliminary results are included to quantify the detector’s accuracy compared to a known crater catalog, given a set of real lunar images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.


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    Title :

    Implementation of Machine Learning Methods for Crater-Based Navigation


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    Conference:

    Astrodynamics Specialist Conference ; 2021 ; Big Sky, MT, US


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    Conference paper


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    Language :

    English




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