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Computer vision research at marshall space flight center
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Vinz, Frank L. |
| Copyright Year | 1990 |
| Description | Orbital docking, inspection, and sevicing are operations which have the potential for capability enhancement as well as cost reduction for space operations by the application of computer vision technology. Research at MSFC has been a natural outgrowth of orbital docking simulations for remote manually controlled vehicles such as the Teleoperator Retrieval System and the Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle (OMV). Baseline design of the OMV dictates teleoperator control from a ground station. This necessitates a high data-rate communication network and results in several seconds of time delay. Operational costs and vehicle control difficulties could be alleviated by an autonomous or semi-autonomous control system onboard the OMV which would be based on a computer vision system having capability to recognize video images in real time. A concept under development at MSFC with these attributes is based on syntactic pattern recognition. It uses tree graphs for rapid recognition of binary images of known orbiting target vehicles. This technique and others being investigated at MSFC will be evaluated in realistic conditions by the use of MSFC orbital docking simulators. Computer vision is also being applied at MSFC as part of the supporting development for Work Package One of Space Station Freedom. |
| File Size | 55690 |
| Page Count | 1 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19900012924 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t0ns5nq37 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1990-02-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Cybernetics Teleoperators Computer Vision Image Processing Research Facilities Orbital Maneuvering Vehicles Pattern Recognition Trees Mathematics Robotics Space Stations Automatic Control Spacecraft Docking Expert Systems Robots Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |