Spacecraft component detection in point clouds

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Abstract

Component detection of spacecraft is significant for on-orbit operation and space situational awareness. Solar wings and main body are the major components of most spacecrafts, and can be described by geometric primitives like planes, cuboid or cylinder. Based on this prior, pipeline to automatically detect the basic components of spacecraft in 3D point clouds is presented, in which planes, cuboid and cylinder are successively detected. The planar patches are first detected as possible solar wings in point clouds of the recorded object. As for detection of the main body, inferring a cuboid main body from the detected patches is first attempted, and a further attempt to extract a cylinder main body is made if no cuboid exists. Dimensions are estimated for each component. Experiments on satellite point cloud data that are recovered by image-based reconstruction demonstrated effectiveness and accuracy of this pipeline.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Image and Graphics Technologies - 12th Chinese conference, IGTA 2017, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsXiaoru Yuan, Henry Been-Lirn Duh, Yongtian Wang, Yue Liu, Jian Yang, Shengjin Wang, Ran He
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages210-218
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9789811073885
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event12th Chinese conference on Advances in Image and Graphics Technologies, IGTA 2017 - Beijing, China
Duration: 30 Jun 20171 Jul 2017

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume757
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference12th Chinese conference on Advances in Image and Graphics Technologies, IGTA 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period30/06/171/07/17

Keywords

  • Component detection
  • Point clouds
  • Spacecraft
  • Structure analysis

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