The ULTOR® Passive Pose and Position Engine (P3E) technology, developed by Advanced Optical Systems, Inc (AOS), uses real-time image correlation to provide relative position and pose data for spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control. Potential data sources include a wide variety of sensors, including visible and infrared cameras. ULTOR® P3E has been demonstrated on a number of host processing platforms. NASA is integrating ULTOR® P3E into its Relative Navigation System (RNS), which is being developed for the upcoming Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Servicing Mission 4 (SM4). During SM4 ULTOR® P3E will perform realtime pose and position measurements during both the approach and departure phases of the mission. This paper describes the RNS implementation of ULTOR® P3E, and presents results from NASA's hardware-in-the-loop simulation testing against the HST mockup.


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    Title :

    ULTOR passive pose and position engine for spacecraft relative navigation


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Sensors and Systems for Space Applications II ; 2008 ; Orlando,Florida,United States


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    Publication date :

    2008-04-15





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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