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Simulation of high resolution lunar's Sinus Iridum terrain

  • Qinghua Su
  • , Yan Zhao*
  • , Falin Wu
  • , Chunming Xie
  • , Yanlong Chu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University

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Abstract

To ensure the lunar lander landing safely, and execute the expected scientific experiments smoothly, a new terrain simulation method is proposed in this paper, which can build a terrain model of Sinus Iridum with a high resolution of better than 1 meter. The terrain surface trend is fitted from a low-resolution terrain with genetic programming (GP) and genetic algorithm (GA). A high resolution terrain with a resolution up to 1 cm in a 10m×10m region is built by applying the distribution laws and the models of craters and rocks in Sinus Iridum region. This method can be used to analyze the landing safety of lunar lander and decide a safe landing site by simulating precisely the real terrain characters.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2011 6th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2011
Pages2589-2592
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 6th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2011 - Beijing, China
Duration: 21 Jun 201123 Jun 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2011 6th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2011

Conference

Conference2011 6th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period21/06/1123/06/11

Keywords

  • Chang'e-2
  • Crater Model
  • Lunar Mare
  • Sinus Iridum
  • Terrain Simulation

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