COMPUTER VISION IN THE TELEOPERATION OF THE YUTU-2 ROVER
On January 3, 2019, the Chang'e-4 (CE-4) probe successfully landed in the Von Kármán crater inside the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin. With the support of a relay communication satellite "Queqiao" launched in 2018 and located at the Earth-Moon L2 liberation point, the lander and the Yu...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:0f446a8a461b48a5bd12a82b76cf0b3c 2023-05-15T18:23:14+02:00 COMPUTER VISION IN THE TELEOPERATION OF THE YUTU-2 ROVER J. Wang J. Li S. Wang T. Yu Z. Rong X. He Y. You Q. Zou W. Wan Y. Wang S. Gou B. Liu M. Peng K. Di Z. Liu M. Jia X. Xin Y. Chen X. Cheng X. Feng C. Liu S. Han X. Liu 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-V-3-2020-595-2020 https://doaj.org/article/0f446a8a461b48a5bd12a82b76cf0b3c EN eng Copernicus Publications https://www.isprs-ann-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/V-3-2020/595/2020/isprs-annals-V-3-2020-595-2020.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/2194-9042 https://doaj.org/toc/2194-9050 doi:10.5194/isprs-annals-V-3-2020-595-2020 2194-9042 2194-9050 https://doaj.org/article/0f446a8a461b48a5bd12a82b76cf0b3c ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol V-3-2020, Pp 595-602 (2020) Technology T Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA1-2040 Applied optics. Photonics TA1501-1820 article 2020 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-V-3-2020-595-2020 2022-12-31T11:03:23Z On January 3, 2019, the Chang'e-4 (CE-4) probe successfully landed in the Von Kármán crater inside the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin. With the support of a relay communication satellite "Queqiao" launched in 2018 and located at the Earth-Moon L2 liberation point, the lander and the Yutu-2 rover carried out in-situ exploration and patrol surveys, respectively, and were able to make a series of important scientific discoveries. Owing to the complexity and unpredictability of the lunar surface, teleoperation has become the most important control method for the operation of the rover. Computer vision is an important technology to support the teleoperation of the rover. During the powered descent stage and lunar surface exploration, teleoperation based on computer vision can effectively overcome many technical challenges, such as fast positioning of the landing point, high-resolution seamless mapping of the landing site, localization of the rover in the complex environment on the lunar surface, terrain reconstruction, and path planning. All these processes helped achieve the first soft landing, roving, and in-situ exploration on the lunar farside. This paper presents a high-precision positioning technology and positioning results of the landing point based on multi-source data, including orbital images and CE-4 descent images. The method and its results have been successfully applied in an actual engineering mission for the first time in China, providing important support for the topographical analysis of the landing site and mission planning for subsequent teleoperations. After landing, a 0.03 m resolution DOM was generated using the descent images and was used as one of the base maps for the overall rover path planning. Before each movement, the Yutu-2 rover controlled its hazard avoidance cameras (Hazcam), navigation cameras (Navcam), and panoramic cameras (Pancam) to capture stereo images of the lunar surface at different angles. Local digital elevation models (DEMs) with a 0.02 m resolution were routinely ... Article in Journal/Newspaper South pole Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles South Pole Aitken ENVELOPE(-44.516,-44.516,-60.733,-60.733) The Landing ENVELOPE(-45.689,-45.689,-60.733,-60.733) ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences V-3-2020 595 602 |
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On January 3, 2019, the Chang'e-4 (CE-4) probe successfully landed in the Von Kármán crater inside the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin. With the support of a relay communication satellite "Queqiao" launched in 2018 and located at the Earth-Moon L2 liberation point, the lander and the Yutu-2 rover carried out in-situ exploration and patrol surveys, respectively, and were able to make a series of important scientific discoveries. Owing to the complexity and unpredictability of the lunar surface, teleoperation has become the most important control method for the operation of the rover. Computer vision is an important technology to support the teleoperation of the rover. During the powered descent stage and lunar surface exploration, teleoperation based on computer vision can effectively overcome many technical challenges, such as fast positioning of the landing point, high-resolution seamless mapping of the landing site, localization of the rover in the complex environment on the lunar surface, terrain reconstruction, and path planning. All these processes helped achieve the first soft landing, roving, and in-situ exploration on the lunar farside. This paper presents a high-precision positioning technology and positioning results of the landing point based on multi-source data, including orbital images and CE-4 descent images. The method and its results have been successfully applied in an actual engineering mission for the first time in China, providing important support for the topographical analysis of the landing site and mission planning for subsequent teleoperations. After landing, a 0.03 m resolution DOM was generated using the descent images and was used as one of the base maps for the overall rover path planning. Before each movement, the Yutu-2 rover controlled its hazard avoidance cameras (Hazcam), navigation cameras (Navcam), and panoramic cameras (Pancam) to capture stereo images of the lunar surface at different angles. Local digital elevation models (DEMs) with a 0.02 m resolution were routinely ... |
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COMPUTER VISION IN THE TELEOPERATION OF THE YUTU-2 ROVER |
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