Vision-based rotational control of an agile observation satellite

Maxime Robic,Renaud Fraisse,Eric Marchand,François Chaumette,Maxime Robic,Renaud Fraisse,Eric Marchand,François Chaumette

Recent Earth observation satellites are now equipped with new instrument that allows image feedback in real-time. Problematic such as ground target tracking, moving or not, can now be addressed by precisely controlling the satellite attitude. In this paper, we propose to consider this problem using a visual servoing approach. While focusing on the target, the control scheme has also to take into a...