TY - GEN
T1 - Orbital Demonstration of Gossamer Structure Shape Estimation using Time-of-Flight Camera System
AU - Kuwahara, Toshinori
AU - Pala, Alperen
AU - Potier, Adrien
AU - Shibuya, Yoshihiko
AU - Sato, Yuji
AU - Fujita, Shinya
AU - Suzuki, Daisuke
AU - Kaneko, Tetsuya
N1 - Funding Information:
This project is supported by Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration Program of JAXA.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Gossamer structures have been playing important roles in space application, such as solar sail for deep space explorations, and also as drag-sail for de-orbiting of satellites into Earth atmosphere catching the atmospheric drag to prevent space debris. There are several methods suggested to securely deploy such gossamer structures in space, but those technologies are still under development especially for the realization of large scale structures in space. One of the challenge in this development roadmap is the measurement method of the 3-D distributed shape of those gossamer structures in space. This paper summarizes orbital demonstration results of shape estimation method based on a Time-of-Flight camera system mounted on a micro-satellite. The result of space demonstration provided valuable lessons learned in structural design of such a camera system as well as noise elimination signal processing. The suggested system provides a new type of shape estimation method for a wide range of space system applications.
AB - Gossamer structures have been playing important roles in space application, such as solar sail for deep space explorations, and also as drag-sail for de-orbiting of satellites into Earth atmosphere catching the atmospheric drag to prevent space debris. There are several methods suggested to securely deploy such gossamer structures in space, but those technologies are still under development especially for the realization of large scale structures in space. One of the challenge in this development roadmap is the measurement method of the 3-D distributed shape of those gossamer structures in space. This paper summarizes orbital demonstration results of shape estimation method based on a Time-of-Flight camera system mounted on a micro-satellite. The result of space demonstration provided valuable lessons learned in structural design of such a camera system as well as noise elimination signal processing. The suggested system provides a new type of shape estimation method for a wide range of space system applications.
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U2 - 10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708770
DO - 10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708770
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85126179040
T3 - 2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2022
SP - 882
EP - 886
BT - 2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2022
Y2 - 9 January 2022 through 12 January 2022
ER -