FRONTIER DEVELOPMENT LAB 2018: SPACE RESOURCES LOCALIZATION or: The Importance of Knowing Where You Are Andrew Chung, Philippe Ludivig, Ross W. K. Potter, Benjamin Wu (researchers) Sylvester Kaczmarek, Timothy Seabrook (mentors) PROBLEM Where are we,...
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FRONTIER DEVELOPMENT LAB 2018: SPACE RESOURCES LOCALIZATION or: The Importance of Knowing Where You Are Andrew Chung, Philippe Ludivig, Ross W. K. Potter, Benjamin Wu (researchers) Sylvester Kaczmarek, Timothy Seabrook (mentors) PROBLEM Where are we, without GPS? SOLUTION Surface perspective-to-satellite perspective image matching via machine learning 1. NEED FOR NASA Accurate localization is essential for SYNTHETIC DATASET CREATION PLANETARY ANALOGUE DATASET CREATION navigation, path planning, and science Moon Landscape [9] within Unreal Engine 4 [10]. Devon Island, Canada; surface and aerial geo-tagged images at a Moon/Mars analogue site. objectives. 2. GPS LOCALIZATION POSSIBLE ON EARTH... ...but not for rovers on other planetary bodies. GENERATE SURFACE PERSPECTIVE -> REPROJECT TO SATELLITE -> MATCH ORBITAL VIEW 1. Generate Surface Views 0o 90o 180o 270o 3. CURRENT METHODS for planetary rover localization techniques are slow or tedious and accumulate error (e.g., [1-3]). Where am I
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