RVS®3000-3D LIDAR – NEXT STOP: GATEWAY

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RVS®3000-3D LIDAR – NEXT STOP: GATEWAY

Schmitt, Christoph / Windmüller, Michael / Schwarz, Michael / Möller, Max

The RVS©3000-3D LIDAR by Jena-Optronik GmbH is selected to serve as primary relative navigation sensor on the ORION vehicle. For autonomous rendezvous and docking with Gateway, the sensor will combine a high resolution scanning LIDAR with robust image processing algorithms. The RVS©3000 LIDAR hardware successfully reached TRL9 via its maiden flight to the ISS in 2019 on Cygnus NG-11. Since then, RVS©3000 LIDAR flew several times to ISS. The development of a version for operation without retro reflectors, the RVS©3000-3D LIDAR, enabled the first GEO satellite servicing mission of MEV-1 to Intelsat IS901 in February 2020 and MEV-2 to IS1002 in April 2021. In the paper, we present the LIDAR system design as it is foreseen for operation against the Gateway target. We start from tracking of available retro reflectors from several kilometers down to autonomous 6-Degree-of-Freedom (6DOF) Pose Estimation with the Gateway’s docking port at close range. Our algorithms exploit the full capability of RVS©3000-3D LIDAR hardware by making use of the best from the two worlds of retro reflector tracking and model-based 6DOF pose estimation. First test results, which have been obtained with a LIDAR Engineering Model (EM) on a 1:1 Gateway docking port mockup at Jena-Optronik, will conclude the presentation.

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Title :

RVS®3000-3D LIDAR – NEXT STOP: GATEWAY

Contributors:

Sandnas, Matt (editor) / Spencer, David B. (editor) / Schmitt, Christoph (author) / Windmüller, Michael (author) / Schwarz, Michael (author) / Möller, Max (author)

Published in:

Proceedings of the 44th Annual American Astronautical Society Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, 2022 ; Chapter : 29 ; 489-496

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences ; 179

Publication date :

2024-01-01

Size :

8 pages

ISBN :

978-3-031-51928-4 , 978-3-031-51927-7

ISSN :

2731-0884 , 2731-0876

DOI :