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Analysis and Testing of a LIDAR-Based Approach to Terrain Relative Navigation for Precise Lunar LandingTo increase safety and land near pre-deployed resources, future NASA missions to the moon will require precision landing. A LIDAR-based terrain relative navigation (TRN) approach can achieve precision landing under any lighting conditions. This paper presents results from processing flash lidar and laser altimeter field test data that show LIDAR TRN can obtain position estimates less than 90m while automatically detecting and eliminating incorrect measurements using internal metrics on terrain relief and data correlation. Sensitivity studies show that the algorithm has no degradation in matching performance with initial position uncertainties up to 1.6 km
Document ID
20150006935
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Johnson, Andrew E.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Ivanov, Tonislav I.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
April 29, 2015
Publication Date
August 8, 2011
Subject Category
Communications And Radar
Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance
Meeting Information
Meeting: AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference
Location: Portland, OR
Country: United States
Start Date: August 8, 2011
End Date: August 11, 2011
Sponsors: American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
ion propulsion
asteriod return
near Earth asteriods (NEA)

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