THE DEVELOPMENT OF A HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP
TEST SETUP FOR EVENT-BASED VISION NEAR-SPACE
SPACE OBJECTS
AALTO UNIVERSITY
Rik van den Boogaard
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this thesis work was to develop a Hardware-in-the-Loop imaging setup that enables experimenting with an event-based and frame-based camera under simulated space conditions. The generated data sets were used to compare visual navigation algorithms in terms of an event-based and frame-based feature detection and tracking algorithm. The comparative analyses of the feature detection and tracking algorithms were used to get insights into the feasibility of event-based vision near-space space objects. Event-based cameras differ from frame-based cameras by how they produce an asynchronous and independent stream of events caused by brightness changes at each pixel instead of capturing images at a fixed rate.
