{"title":"Vision-based navigation and obstacle detection flight results in SLIM lunar landing","authors":"Takayuki Ishida , Seisuke Fukuda , Kazuki Kariya , Hiroyuki Kamata , Keiki Takadama , Hirohisa Kojima , Shujiro Sawai , Shinichiro Sakai","doi":"10.1016/j.actaastro.2024.11.002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>On January 20, 2024, Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) landed on the Moon. Vision-Based Navigation (VBN) was used to estimate the position of the spacecraft accurately and autonomously during the descent phase, and it was successfully used in each of the seven regions. Obstacle detection was also performed 50 m above the lunar surface, successfully identifying safe points within the field of view of the navigation camera. As a result, SLIM was the first mission to realize pinpoint lunar landing technology with 100 m accuracy. This paper details the VBN operational concept and developed components, as well as the flight results of VBN in SLIM’s lunar landing operations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":44971,"journal":{"name":"Acta Astronautica","volume":"226 ","pages":"Pages 772-781"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Acta Astronautica","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576524006490","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, AEROSPACE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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On January 20, 2024, Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) landed on the Moon. Vision-Based Navigation (VBN) was used to estimate the position of the spacecraft accurately and autonomously during the descent phase, and it was successfully used in each of the seven regions. Obstacle detection was also performed 50 m above the lunar surface, successfully identifying safe points within the field of view of the navigation camera. As a result, SLIM was the first mission to realize pinpoint lunar landing technology with 100 m accuracy. This paper details the VBN operational concept and developed components, as well as the flight results of VBN in SLIM’s lunar landing operations.
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Acta Astronautica is sponsored by the International Academy of Astronautics. Content is based on original contributions in all fields of basic, engineering, life and social space sciences and of space technology related to:
The peaceful scientific exploration of space,
Its exploitation for human welfare and progress,
Conception, design, development and operation of space-borne and Earth-based systems,
In addition to regular issues, the journal publishes selected proceedings of the annual International Astronautical Congress (IAC), transactions of the IAA and special issues on topics of current interest, such as microgravity, space station technology, geostationary orbits, and space economics. Other subject areas include satellite technology, space transportation and communications, space energy, power and propulsion, astrodynamics, extraterrestrial intelligence and Earth observations.