CubeSat-CDT: A Cross-Domain Dataset for 6-DoF Trajectory Estimation of a Symmetric Spacecraft

Autor: Mohamed Ali, Mohamed Adel, Rathinam, Arunkumar, Gaudilliere, Vincent, Ortiz Del Castillo, Miguel, Aouada, Djamila
Přispěvatelé: Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > Computer Vision Imaging & Machine Intelligence (CVI²) [research center]
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Popis: This paper introduces a new cross-domain dataset, CubeSat- CDT, that includes 21 trajectories of a real CubeSat acquired in a labora- tory setup, combined with 65 trajectories generated using two rendering engines – i.e. Unity and Blender. The three data sources incorporate the same 1U CubeSat and share the same camera intrinsic parameters. In ad- dition, we conduct experiments to show the characteristics of the dataset using a novel and efficient spacecraft trajectory estimation method, that leverages the information provided from the three data domains. Given a video input of a target spacecraft, the proposed end-to-end approach re- lies on a Temporal Convolutional Network that enforces the inter-frame coherence of the estimated 6-Degree-of-Freedom spacecraft poses. The pipeline is decomposed into two stages; first, spatial features are ex- tracted from each frame in parallel; second, these features are lifted to the space of camera poses while preserving temporal information. Our re- sults highlight the importance of addressing the domain gap problem to propose reliable solutions for close-range autonomous relative navigation between spacecrafts. Since the nature of the data used during training impacts directly the performance of the final solution, the CubeSat-CDT dataset is provided to advance research into this direction.
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