3D flash lidar performance in flight testing on the Morpheus autonomous, rocket-propelled lander to a lunar-like hazard field
| Autor: | Bruce W. Barnes, Alexander Bulyshev, Farzin Amzajerdian, Vincent E. Roback, Paul F. Brewster |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Terrain 02 engineering and technology Slant range 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Moon landing 01 natural sciences 010309 optics Flash (photography) Lidar Rocket Range (aeronautics) 0103 physical sciences Trajectory Environmental science 0210 nano-technology business Remote sensing |
| Zdroj: | SPIE Proceedings. |
| ISSN: | 0277-786X |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.2223916 |
| Popis: | For the first time, a 3-D imaging Flash Lidar instrument has been used in flight to scan a lunar-like hazard field, build a 3-D Digital Elevation Map (DEM), identify a safe landing site, and, in concert with an experimental Guidance, Navigation, and Control system, help to guide the Morpheus autonomous, rocket-propelled, free-flying lander to that safe site on the hazard field. The flight tests served as the TRL 6 demo of the Autonomous Precision Landing and Hazard Detection and Avoidance Technology (ALHAT) system and included launch from NASA-Kennedy, a lunar-like descent trajectory from an altitude of 250m, and landing on a lunar-like hazard field of rocks, craters, hazardous slopes, and safe sites 400m down-range. The ALHAT project developed a system capable of enabling safe, precise crewed or robotic landings in challenging terrain on planetary bodies under any ambient lighting conditions. The Flash Lidar is a second generation, compact, real-time, air-cooled instrument. Based upon extensive on-ground characterization at flight ranges, the Flash Lidar was shown to be capable of imaging hazards from a slant range of 1 km with an 8 cm range precision and a range accuracy better than 35 cm, both at 1-σ. The Flash Lidar identified landing hazards as small as 30 cm from the maximum slant range which Morpheus could achieve (450 m); however, under certain wind conditions it was susceptible to scintillation arising from air heated by the rocket engine and to pre-triggering on a dust cloud created during launch and transported down-range by wind. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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