A New System for Locating and Capturing Satellites in Space

Scientists at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a new system for docking and capturing space satellites based on robotics and computer vision technology to autonomously guide a space vehicle to dock and capture the satellites.Within the framework of this research project, ?Acoplamiento y Agarre de Sat�lites mediante Sistemas Rob�ticos basado en Visi�n (Docking and Capture of Satellites through computer vision) (ASIROV)?, the scientists have developed algorithms an [...]

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