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Illumination-aware active perception for spacecraft inspection

The authors propose an inspection planning framework that replaces geometric visibility checks with a learned camera information metric based on a classifier variational autoencoder (VAE), to address inspection failures caused by drastic orbital illumination changes. The method implements a guidance, navigation, and control architecture in a photorealistic physics simulator and tests multiple orbital illumination conditions and viewpoints: average brightness reaches 0.57, with 81.6% of observations above 0.25, compared with 0.02 (3.0%) for geometric planning with illumination bands and 0.04 (6.0%) for pure geometric planning.

Part of the event: Light-Aware Planning Framework Improves Spacecraft Inspection Imaging

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