Sistemi di navigazione autonoma per collision avoidance e operazioni di prossimità tra satelliti

The Microsatellites and Space Microsystems Laboratory (u3S Lab) is engaged in research on micro- and nanosatellite platforms, addressing topics related to navigation, orbit and attitude determination and control, and mission analysis.The research activity falls within the framework of CuBACO – CubeSat Board for Avoiding Collisions, a project funded by the Italian Space Agency, and of the laboratory's research and development activities on proximity navigation based on computer vision algorithms. The objective is twofold: on the one hand, to support CuBACO activities, in particular the development of a prototype satellite subsystem for autonomous onboard GNSS navigation and collision avoidance; on the other hand, to implement and verify navigation algorithms based on monocular images on a robotic testbed available in the laboratory.