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Toward an Autonomous Lunar Landing Based on Low-Speed Optic Flow Sensors

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For the last few decades, growing interest has returned to the quite chal-lenging task of the autonomous lunar landing. Soft landing of payloads on the lu-nar surface requires the development of new means of ensuring safe descent with strong final conditions and aerospace-related constraints in terms of mass, cost and computational resources. In this paper, a two-phase approach is presented: first a biomimetic method inspired from the neuronal and sensory system of flying insects is presented as a solution to perform safe lunar landing. In order to design an au-topilot relying only on optic flow (OF) and inertial measurements, an estimation method based on a two-sensor setup is introduced: these sensors allow us to accu-rately estimate the orientation of the velocity vector which is mandatory to control the lander's pitch in a quasi-optimal way with respect to the fuel consumption. Sec-ondly a new low-speed Visual Motion Sensor (VMS) inspired by insects' visual systems performing local angular 1-D speed measurements ranging from 1.5 • /s to 25 • /s and weighing only 2.8 g is presented. It was tested under free-flying outdoor conditions over various fields onboard an 80 kg unmanned helicopter. These pre-liminary results show that the optic flow measured despite the complex disturbances encountered closely matched the ground-truth optic flow.

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hal-01079728 , version 1 (03-11-2014)

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Guillaume Sabiron, Paul Chavent, Laurent Burlion, Erwan Kervendal, Eric Bornschlegl, et al.. Toward an Autonomous Lunar Landing Based on Low-Speed Optic Flow Sensors. Advances in Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control, Springer, pp.681 - 699, 2013, 978-3-642-38253-6. ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-38253-6_39⟩. ⟨hal-01079728⟩
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