no code implementations • 5 Jan 2024 • Van Minh Nguyen, Emma Sandidge, Trupti Mahendrakar, Ryan T. White
We demonstrate model training and 3D rendering performance on a hardware-in-the-loop satellite mock-up under several realistic lighting and motion conditions.
no code implementations • 3 Nov 2023 • Mackenzie J. Meni, Trupti Mahendrakar, Olivia D. M. Raney, Ryan T. White, Michael L. Mayo, Kevin Pilkiewicz
The escalating risk of collisions and the accumulation of space debris in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) has reached critical concern due to the ever increasing number of spacecraft.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2023 • Trupti Mahendrakar, Ryan T. White, Markus Wilde, Madhur Tiwari
Performance in autonomous spacecraft detection of SpaceYOLO is compared to ordinary YOLOv5 in hardware-in-the-loop experiments under different lighting and chaser maneuver conditions at the ORION Laboratory at Florida Tech.
no code implementations • 22 Jan 2023 • Basilio Caruso, Trupti Mahendrakar, Van Minh Nguyen, Ryan T. White, Todd Steffen
This work adapts Instant NeRF and D-NeRF, variations of the neural radiance field (NeRF) algorithm to the problem of mapping RSOs in orbit for the purposes of functionality identification and assisting with OOS.
no code implementations • 22 Jan 2023 • Trupti Mahendrakar, Steven Holmberg, Andrew Ekblad, Emma Conti, Ryan T. White, Markus Wilde, Isaac Silver
Space debris is on the rise due to the increasing demand for spacecraft for com-munication, navigation, and other applications.
no code implementations • 22 Jan 2023 • Trupti Mahendrakar, Andrew Ekblad, Nathan Fischer, Ryan T. White, Markus Wilde, Brian Kish, Isaac Silver
One way to autonomously achieve target identification, characterization and feature recognition is by use of artificial intelligence algorithms.
no code implementations • 22 Jan 2023 • Andrew Ekblad, Trupti Mahendrakar, Ryan T. White, Markus Wilde, Isaac Silver, Brooke Wheeler
The effective use of computer vision and machine learning for on-orbit applications has been hampered by limited computing capabilities, and therefore limited performance.